🐕 Give Your Agent a Puppy: Introducing Pup CLI

NOTICE: This is in Preview mode, we are fine tuning the interactions and bugs that arise. Please file issues or submit PRs. Thank you for your early interest!

Every AI agent needs a loyal companion. Meet Pup — the CLI that gives your agents full access to Datadog's observability platform (because even autonomous agents need good tooling, not just tricks).

What is Pup?

A comprehensive, AI-agent-ready CLI with 200+ commands across 33 Datadog products. We've unleashed the full power of Datadog's APIs so your agents can fetch metrics, sniff out errors, and track down issues without barking up the wrong API tree.

AI agents are the fastest-growing interface for infrastructure management. Companies like Vercel and AWS are racing to make their platforms agent-accessible, but we're leading the pack. Pup makes Datadog the alpha choice for AI-native workflows with 100% documented API coverage while competitors are still learning basic commands.

Why Your Agent Will Love It

• 🐾 Well-trained: Self-discoverable commands (no need to chase documentation)
• 🦮 Obedient: Structured JSON/YAML output for easy parsing
• 🐕‍🦺 On a leash: OAuth2 + PKCE for scoped access (no more long-lived keys running wild)
• 🐶 Knows all the tricks: Monitors, logs, metrics, RUM, security and more!

Try It (Humans Welcome Too!)

# Give your agent credentials (house-training, basically)
pup auth login

# Now they can fetch data like a good pup
pup monitors list --tags="team:api-platform"         # Fetch monitors
pup logs search --query="status:error" --from="1h"   # Sniff out errors
pup metrics query --query="avg:system.cpu.user{*}"   # Track the metrics tail

🐶 TL;DR: We built a comprehensive CLI so AI agents can use Datadog like a pro. Give your agent a pup. They're housetrained, loyal, and know way more tricks than you'd expect.

P.S. No actual puppies were harmed in the making of this CLI. Just a lot of Go code and API endpoints.

API Coverage

Pup implements 38 of 85+ available Datadog APIs (44.7% coverage).

See docs/COMMANDS.md for detailed command reference.

💡 Tip: Use Ctrl/Cmd+F to search for specific APIs. Request features via GitHub Issues.

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📊 Core Observability (6/9 implemented)

API Domain	Status	Pup Commands	Notes
Metrics	✅	metrics search, metrics query, metrics list, metrics get	V1 and V2 APIs supported
Logs	✅	logs search, logs list, logs aggregate	V1 and V2 APIs supported
Events	✅	events list, events search, events get	Infrastructure event management
RUM	✅	rum apps, rum sessions, rum metrics list/get, rum retention-filters list/get	Apps, sessions, metrics, retention filters (create/update pending)
APM Services	✅	apm services, apm entities, apm dependencies, apm flow-map	Services stats, operations, resources; entity queries; dependencies; flow visualization
Traces	❌	-	Not yet implemented
Profiling	❌	-	Not yet implemented
Session Replay	❌	-	Not yet implemented
Spans Metrics	❌	-	Not yet implemented

🔔 Monitoring & Alerting (6/9 implemented)

API Domain	Status	Pup Commands	Notes
Monitors	✅	monitors list, monitors get, monitors delete, monitors search	Full CRUD support with advanced search
Dashboards	✅	dashboards list, dashboards get, dashboards delete, dashboards url	Full management capabilities
SLOs	✅	slos list, slos get, slos create, slos update, slos delete, slos corrections	Full CRUD plus corrections
Synthetics	✅	synthetics tests list, synthetics locations list	Test management support
Downtimes	✅	downtime list, downtime get, downtime cancel	Full downtime management
Notebooks	✅	notebooks list, notebooks get, notebooks delete	Investigation notebooks supported
Dashboard Lists	❌	-	Not yet implemented
Powerpacks	❌	-	Not yet implemented
Workflow Automation	❌	-	Not yet implemented

🔒 Security & Compliance (6/9 implemented)

API Domain	Status	Pup Commands	Notes
Security Monitoring	✅	security rules list, security signals list, security findings search	Rules, signals, findings with advanced search
Static Analysis	✅	static-analysis ast, static-analysis custom-rulesets, static-analysis sca, static-analysis coverage	Code security analysis
Audit Logs	✅	audit-logs list, audit-logs search	Full audit log search and listing
Data Governance	✅	data-governance scanner-rules list	Sensitive data scanner rules
Application Security	❌	-	Not yet implemented
CSM Threats	❌	-	Not yet implemented
Cloud Security (CSPM)	❌	-	Not yet implemented
Sensitive Data Scanner	❌	-	Not yet implemented

☁️ Infrastructure & Cloud (6/8 implemented)

API Domain	Status	Pup Commands	Notes
Infrastructure	✅	infrastructure hosts list, infrastructure hosts get	Host inventory management
Tags	✅	tags list, tags get, tags add, tags update, tags delete	Host tag operations
Network	⏳	network flows list, network devices list	Placeholder - API endpoints pending
Cloud (AWS)	✅	cloud aws list	AWS integration management
Cloud (GCP)	✅	cloud gcp list	GCP integration management
Cloud (Azure)	✅	cloud azure list	Azure integration management
Containers	❌	-	Not yet implemented
Processes	❌	-	Not yet implemented

🚨 Incident & Operations (6/7 implemented)

API Domain	Status	Pup Commands	Notes
Incidents	✅	incidents list, incidents get, incidents attachments	Incident management with attachment support
On-Call (Teams)	✅	on-call teams (CRUD, memberships with roles)	Full team management system with admin/member roles
Case Management	✅	cases (create, search, assign, archive, projects)	Complete case management with priorities P1-P5
Error Tracking	✅	error-tracking issues search, error-tracking issues get	Error issue search and details
Service Catalog	✅	service-catalog list, service-catalog get	Service registry management
Scorecards	✅	scorecards list, scorecards get	Service quality scores
Incident Services/Teams	❌	-	Not yet implemented

🔧 CI/CD & Development (1/3 implemented)

API Domain	Status	Pup Commands	Notes
CI Visibility	✅	cicd pipelines list, cicd events list	CI/CD pipeline visibility and events
Test Optimization	❌	-	Not yet implemented
DORA Metrics	❌	-	Not yet implemented

👥 Organization & Access (5/6 implemented)

API Domain	Status	Pup Commands	Notes
Users	✅	users list, users get, users roles	User and role management
Organizations	✅	organizations get, organizations list	Organization settings management
API Keys	✅	api-keys list, api-keys get, api-keys create, api-keys delete	Full API key CRUD
App Keys	✅	app-keys list, app-keys get, app-keys register, app-keys unregister	App key registration for Action Connections
Service Accounts	✅	-	Managed via users commands
Roles	❌	-	Only list via users

⚙️ Platform & Configuration (7/9 implemented)

API Domain	Status	Pup Commands	Notes
Usage Metering	✅	usage summary, usage hourly	Usage and billing metrics
Cost Management	✅	cost projected, cost attribution, cost by-org	Cost attribution by tags and organizations
Product Analytics	✅	product-analytics events send	Server-side product analytics events
Integrations	✅	integrations slack, integrations pagerduty, integrations webhooks	Third-party integrations support
Observability Pipelines	⏳	obs-pipelines list, obs-pipelines get	Placeholder - API endpoints pending
Miscellaneous	✅	misc ip-ranges, misc status	IP ranges and status
Key Management	❌	-	Not yet implemented
IP Allowlist	❌	-	Not yet implemented

Installation

Homebrew (macOS/Linux) - Coming soon!

brew tap datadog-labs/pack
brew install datadog-labs/pack/pup

Go Install

go install github.com/datadog-labs/pup@latest

Manual Download

Download pre-built binaries from the latest release.

Authentication

Pup supports two authentication methods. OAuth2 is preferred and will be used automatically if you've logged in.

OAuth2 Authentication (Preferred)

OAuth2 provides secure, browser-based authentication with automatic token refresh.

# Set your Datadog site (optional)
export DD_SITE="datadoghq.com"  # Defaults to datadoghq.com

# Login via browser
pup auth login

# Use any command - OAuth tokens are used automatically
pup monitors list

# Check status
pup auth status

# Logout
pup auth logout

Token Storage: Tokens are stored securely in your system's keychain (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, Linux Secret Service). Set DD_TOKEN_STORAGE=file to use file-based storage instead.

Note: OAuth2 requires Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) to be enabled on your Datadog site. If DCR is not available yet, use API key authentication.

See docs/OAUTH2.md for detailed OAuth2 documentation.

API Key Authentication (Fallback)

If OAuth2 tokens are not available, Pup automatically falls back to API key authentication.

export DD_API_KEY="your-datadog-api-key"
export DD_APP_KEY="your-datadog-application-key"
export DD_SITE="datadoghq.com"  # Optional, defaults to datadoghq.com

# Use any command - API keys are used automatically
pup monitors list

Authentication Priority

Pup checks for authentication in this order:

1. OAuth2 tokens (from pup auth login) - Used if valid tokens exist
2. API keys (from DD_API_KEY and DD_APP_KEY) - Used if OAuth tokens not available

Usage

Authentication

# OAuth2 login (recommended)
pup auth login

# Check authentication status
pup auth status

# Refresh access token
pup auth refresh

# Logout
pup auth logout

Test Connection

pup test

Monitors

# List all monitors
pup monitors list

# Get specific monitor
pup monitors get 12345678

# Delete monitor
pup monitors delete 12345678 --yes

Metrics

# Search metrics using classic query syntax (v1 API)
pup metrics search --query="avg:system.cpu.user{*}" --from="1h"

# Query time-series data (v2 API)
pup metrics query --query="avg:system.cpu.user{*}" --from="1h"

# List available metrics
pup metrics list --filter="system.*"

Dashboards

# List all dashboards
pup dashboards list

# Get dashboard details
pup dashboards get abc-123-def

# Delete dashboard
pup dashboards delete abc-123-def --yes

SLOs

# List all SLOs
pup slos list

# Get SLO details
pup slos get abc-123

# Delete SLO
pup slos delete abc-123 --yes

Incidents

# List all incidents
pup incidents list

# Get incident details
pup incidents get abc-123-def

Global Flags

• -o, --output: Output format (json, table, yaml) - default: json
• -y, --yes: Skip confirmation prompts for destructive operations

Environment Variables

• DD_API_KEY: Datadog API key (optional if using OAuth2)
• DD_APP_KEY: Datadog Application key (optional if using OAuth2)
• DD_SITE: Datadog site (default: datadoghq.com)
• DD_AUTO_APPROVE: Auto-approve destructive operations (true/false)
• DD_TOKEN_STORAGE: Token storage backend (keychain or file, default: auto-detect)

Development

# Run tests
go test ./...

# Build
go build -o pup .

# Run without building
go run main.go monitors list

License

Apache License 2.0 - see LICENSE for details.

Documentation

For detailed documentation, see CLAUDE.md.