pup (Datadog CLI)

Pup CLI for Datadog API operations. Supports OAuth2 and API key auth.

Quick Reference

Task	Command
Search error logs	`pup logs search --query "status:error" --from 1h`
List monitors	`pup monitors list`
Diff a monitor definition	`pup monitors diff <monitor-id> monitor.json`
Schedule monitor downtime	`pup downtime create --file downtime.json`
Open a dashboard at a live time window	`pup dashboards url <dashboard-id> --from now-1h --to now --live true`
Find recent slow traces for a service (last 1h)	`pup traces search --query "service:<service-name> @duration:>500ms" --from 1h`
List incidents	`pup incidents list --limit 50`
Import incident payload	`pup incidents import --file incident.json`
Query metrics	`pup metrics query --query "avg:system.cpu.user{*}"`
List hosts	`pup infrastructure hosts list --count 50`
Check SLOs	`pup slos list`
On-call teams	`pup on-call teams list`
Triage open critical security signals (last 1h)	`pup security signals list --query "status:open severity:critical" --from 1h --limit 100`
Search audit logs	`pup audit-logs search --query "@action:deleted" --from 24h`
Audit activity by user	`pup audit-logs search --query "@usr.email:user@example.com" --from 7d`
Investigate API key	`pup audit-logs search --query "@metadata.api_key.id:KEY_ID" --from 90d`
Check auth	`pup auth status`
Token expiry (time left)	`pup auth status`
Refresh token	`pup auth refresh`

Prerequisites

Install pup using the setup instructions.

Required Input Resolution

For commands that need specific scope values (<env>, <service-name>, <team-id>, resource IDs), use this order:

Check context first (conversation history, prior command output, saved variables).
If missing, run a discovery command first (list/search) to get valid values.
If still missing or ambiguous, ask the user to confirm the exact value.
Then run the target command.
Never run commands with unresolved placeholders like <env> or <monitor-id>.

Auth

pup auth login          # OAuth2 browser flow (recommended)
pup auth status         # Check token validity
pup auth refresh        # Refresh expired token (no browser)
pup auth logout         # Clear credentials

Tokens expire (~1 hour). If a command fails with 401/403 mid-conversation:

pup auth refresh        # Try refresh first
pup auth login          # If refresh fails, full re-auth

If Chrome opens the wrong profile/window, use the one-time OAuth URL printed by pup auth login (If the browser doesn't open, visit: ...) and open that link manually in the correct account session.

Headless/CI (no browser)

# Use env vars or:
export DD_API_KEY=your-api-key
export DD_APP_KEY=your-app-key
export DD_SITE=datadoghq.com    # or datadoghq.eu, etc.

Command Reference

Monitors

pup monitors list --limit 10
pup monitors list --tags "env:<env>"
pup monitors get <monitor-id>
pup monitors search --query "<monitor-name>"
pup monitors create --file monitor.json
pup monitors update <monitor-id> --file monitor.json
pup monitors diff <monitor-id> monitor.json
pup monitors delete <monitor-id>
# No pup monitors mute/unmute commands; use downtime payloads instead.
pup downtime create --file downtime.json

Logs

pup logs search --query "status:error" --from 1h
pup logs search --query "service:<service-name>" --from 1h --limit 100
pup logs search --query "@http.status_code:5*" --from 24h
pup logs search --query "env:<env> level:error" --from 1h
pup logs aggregate --query "service:<service-name>" --compute count --from 1h

Metrics

pup metrics query --query "avg:system.cpu.user{*}" --from 1h --to now
pup metrics query --query "sum:trace.express.request.hits{service:<service-name>}" --from 1h --to now
pup metrics list --filter "system.*"

APM / Traces

# Confirm env tag with the user first (do not assume production/prod/prd).
pup apm services list --env <env> --from 1h --to now
pup traces search --query "service:<service-name>" --from 1h
pup traces search --query "service:<service-name> @duration:>500ms" --from 1h
pup traces search --query "service:<service-name> status:error" --from 1h

Incidents

pup incidents list --limit 50
pup incidents get <incident-id>
pup incidents import --file incident.json

Dashboards

pup dashboards list
pup dashboards get <dashboard-id> --read-only
pup dashboards url <dashboard-id> --from now-1h --to now --live true
pup dashboards create --file dashboard.json
pup dashboards update <dashboard-id> --file dashboard.json
pup dashboards delete <dashboard-id>

Safe dashboard create, clone, and update workflow

The goal is a recoverable source and a verified destination. A successful API response alone does not prove that widget content or placement was preserved.

Fetch the source or update target with --read-only and save the exact response as an immutable snapshot. Never overwrite this file with transformed JSON.
```
pup dashboards get <dashboard-id> --read-only -o json > dashboard-source.json
```
Build a separate mutation payload. Remove response-only fields before create/update: author_handle, author_name, created_at, id, modified_at, and url.
```
jq 'del(.author_handle, .author_name, .created_at, .id, .modified_at, .url)' \
  dashboard-source.json > dashboard-payload.json
```
For a backup or clone, leave the source dashboard unchanged and change only explicitly requested fields, usually title or description. Preserve layout_type, reflow_type, widget order, and every recursive widget layout object (x, y, width, height, and is_column_break). Repacking or compacting coordinates creates a derived layout, not an exact clone.

Create or update from dashboard-payload.json, then fetch the destination into a new file.

pup dashboards create --file dashboard-payload.json
pup dashboards get <destination-id> --read-only -o json > dashboard-destination.json

Normalize away the response-only fields and compare the complete definitions. The only differences should be the fields intentionally changed.

Also compare layout projections separately so a placement regression cannot hide in a large widget diff:

jq '{layout_type, reflow_type, layouts: [.. | objects | .layout? // empty]}' dashboard-source.json
jq '{layout_type, reflow_type, layouts: [.. | objects | .layout? // empty]}' dashboard-destination.json

Pup 1.6.3 does not expose dashboard version history. If an exact historical version is required and no immutable snapshot exists, inspect version history in the Datadog UI before changing the dashboard.

SLOs

pup slos list
pup slos get <slo-id>
pup slos status <slo-id> --from 30d --to now
pup slos create --file slo.json

Synthetics

pup synthetics tests list
pup synthetics tests get <test-id>
pup synthetics tests search --text "login"
pup synthetics locations list

On-Call

pup on-call teams list
# Pick a real team id from `pup on-call teams list` output.
pup on-call teams get <team-id>
pup on-call teams memberships list <team-id>

Hosts / Infrastructure

pup infrastructure hosts list --count 50
pup infrastructure hosts list --filter "env:<env>"
pup infrastructure hosts get <host-name>

Events

pup events list --from 24h
pup events list --tags "source:deploy"
pup events search --query "deploy" --from 24h --limit 50
pup events get <event-id>

Downtimes

pup downtime list
pup downtime create --file downtime.json
pup downtime cancel <downtime-id>

Users / Teams

pup users list
pup users get <user-id>

Security

pup security signals list --query "*" --from 1h --limit 100
pup security signals list --query "status:open severity:critical" --from 1h --limit 100
# Broader lookback for historical triage
pup security signals list --query "severity:critical" --from 24h --limit 100

Audit Logs

# List recent events
pup audit-logs list --from 1h --limit 100

# Search with query (Lucene syntax, same as Log Explorer)
pup audit-logs search --query "@action:deleted" --from 24h
pup audit-logs search --query "@usr.email:user@example.com" --from 7d
pup audit-logs search --query "@evt.name:Authentication @action:login" --from 7d
pup audit-logs search --query "@metadata.api_key.id:KEY_ID" --from 90d --limit 200

# JSON output for piping to jq
pup audit-logs search --query "@action:deleted" --from 24h -o json | jq '.data[].attributes'

# audit-logs is the long form (both work)
pup audit-logs search --query "@evt.name:Monitor @action:modified" --from 7d

Service Catalog

pup service-catalog list
pup service-catalog get <service-name>

Notebooks

pup notebooks list
pup notebooks get <notebook-id>

Workflows

pup workflows get <workflow-id>
pup workflows run <workflow-id> --payload '{"key":"value"}'
pup workflows instances list <workflow-id>

Observability Pipelines

pup obs-pipelines list --limit 50
pup obs-pipelines get <pipeline-id>
pup obs-pipelines create --file pipeline.json
pup obs-pipelines update <pipeline-id> --file pipeline.json
pup obs-pipelines delete <pipeline-id>
pup obs-pipelines validate --file pipeline.json

LLM Observability

pup llm-obs projects list
pup llm-obs projects create --file project.json
pup llm-obs experiments list
pup llm-obs experiments list --filter-project-id <project-id>
pup llm-obs experiments list --filter-dataset-id <dataset-id>
pup llm-obs experiments create --file experiment.json
pup llm-obs experiments update <experiment-id> --file experiment.json
pup llm-obs experiments delete --file delete-request.json
pup llm-obs datasets list --project-id <project-id>
pup llm-obs datasets create --project-id <project-id> --file dataset.json
pup llm-obs spans search --ml-app <ml-app-name> --from 1h --limit 20

Reference Tables

pup reference-tables list --limit 50
pup reference-tables get <table-id>
pup reference-tables create --file table.json
pup reference-tables batch-query --file query.json

Cost Cloud Configs

# AWS CUR configs
pup cost aws-config list
pup cost aws-config get <account-id>
pup cost aws-config create --file config.json
pup cost aws-config delete <account-id>

# Azure UC configs
pup cost azure-config list
pup cost azure-config get <account-id>
pup cost azure-config create --file config.json
pup cost azure-config delete <account-id>

# GCP usage cost configs
pup cost gcp-config list
pup cost gcp-config get <account-id>
pup cost gcp-config create --file config.json
pup cost gcp-config delete <account-id>

Subcommand Discovery

pup --version           # Confirm installed version before documenting workarounds
pup --help              # List all commands
pup <command> --help    # Command-specific help
pup dashboards get <dashboard-id> --jq '{title, layout_type}'  # Filter output before formatting

If local help differs from this skill, compare pup --version with the latest stable release before inventing a workaround.

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Fix
401 Unauthorized	Token expired	`pup auth refresh`
403 Forbidden	Missing scope	Check app key permissions
404 Not Found	Wrong ID/resource	Verify resource exists
Rate limited	Too many requests	Add delays between calls

Install

See Setup Pup for installation instructions.

Verify Installation

which pup
pup --version

Sites

Site	`DD_SITE` value
US1 (default)	`datadoghq.com`
US3	`us3.datadoghq.com`
US5	`us5.datadoghq.com`
EU1	`datadoghq.eu`
AP1	`ap1.datadoghq.com`
AP2	`ap2.datadoghq.com`
US1-FED	`ddog-gov.com`

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