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title: Datadog
description: Connect Datadog with Statsig to forward Datadog events and metrics to Statsig for experiment analysis and to push Statsig events back into Datadog.
product: general
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# Datadog

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### Overview

There are four key use cases for the Datadog integration:

1. [Config Changes](#config-changes): Streams changes made in Statsig into Datadog, so you can identify which feature you enabled when a CPU spike or other performance degradation occurred (most widely-used integration).
2. [Event Forwarding](#events): Statsig forwards event-count totals to Datadog for monitoring your Statsig usage volumes.
3. [Datadog RUM integration](#datadog-rum-integration): Enriches Datadog RUM data with flag and experiment assignment information, allowing you to correlate product feature changes with their impact on system and performance metrics.
4. [Datadog triggers](https://docs.statsig.com/integrations/triggers/datadog): When an alarm fires in Datadog, the trigger stops a Statsig feature gate.

### Connecting to Datadog

1. To create a Datadog API key, navigate to **Organization Settings** > **API Keys**. If you have the permission to create API keys, click **New Key**.

![Datadog API key creation interface](https://docs.statsig.com/images/integrations/datadog/232632837-d1e81380-78a3-48a2-887d-72b13d541b0a.png)

2. Paste the API key in the text box at the top of the integration dialog, then select **Confirm**.

If the above steps are out of date, refer to the [Datadog documentation](https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/api-app-keys/#add-an-api-key-or-client-token) on how to set up API keys.

### Config changes

This integration sends Datadog Events of your choice when your project's settings change. For example, Statsig sends an Event when someone edits a Feature Gate.

These events appear in the Datadog Events Explorer.

![Datadog Events Explorer interface](https://docs.statsig.com/images/integrations/datadog/232636042-ee5cf1d0-e9e7-4158-903b-5a447ab14575.png)

### Event totals forwarding

This integration forwards the count of Statsig SDK Events to Datadog for monitoring your project's Statsig usage. This integration also has the option to forward non-production events to Datadog.

Statsig maps events to Datadog metrics with the listed tags as follows:

- statsig::gate\_exposure -> statsig.check\_gate.count

  - environment
  - name
  - value
- statsig::config\_exposure -> statsig.get\_config.count

  - environment
- statsig::experiment\_exposure -> statsig.get\_experiment.count

  - environment
  - group
  - name
- statsig::layer\_exposure -> statsig.get\_layer.count

  - environment
  - name
- statsig::holdout\_exposure -> statsig.get\_holdout.count

  - environment
  - name
  - value

#### Example of check\_gate metric

![Datadog check_gate metric visualization](https://docs.statsig.com/images/integrations/datadog/232629870-e1776bd6-c63d-438d-863e-2d7a3a347eab.png)

### Datadog RUM integration

This integration requires a client-side setup. Go to the [Datadog documentation](https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/statsig-rum/) for setup instructions.