Connect to Datadog

Datadog Overview

With Finout's seamless Datadog integration, gain precise cost visibility and monitor expenses daily. Conveniently view your Datadog spend alongside other providers, facilitating easy cost allocation for teams, applications, and environments. Utilize Finout's comprehensive cost governance suite for anomaly detection, budget enforcement, and accurate bill forecasting.

Moreover, Datadog is seamlessly integrated into our cost optimization suite, CostGuard, which automatically detects and offers waste reduction recommendations for logs, metrics, and other Datadog products.

Datadog Integration

1. Create an API Key

a. Log into your Datadog account.

b. Hover over your Datadog user and select Organization Settings. The Organization Settings view appears.

c. Click API Keys. The New API Key pop-up appears.

d. Enter an API key name and click Create Key.

e. Copy the new API key, save it for later (step 2-f), and click Finish.

2. Create an Application Key

a. In your Datadog account, hover over your Datadog user and select Organization Settings.

b. Choose Application Keys.

c. Enter an API key name and click Create Key.

d. The default configuration is a non-scoped app key. To scope the API key, click Edit under the scope section. The Edit Key Scope appears.

e. Choose the relevant scopes according to this table and click Save.

f. Copy the new App key and save it for later (step 3-f).

3. Finout Console Integration

a. In Finout, navigate to Settings.

c. Click Cost Centers. You are brought to the cost centers page.

d. Click Add cost center. The Connect Accounts popup appears.

e. Find Datadog and click Connect Now. The Datadog integration popup window appears.

f. Add the API key and APP key (created in step 1 and 2) and click Next. The cost center has been created.

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