---
id: datadog
version: "0.53.0"
license: BSD-3-Clause
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# datadog — The Datadog Python library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install datadog
uv add datadog
poetry add datadog

## Description

# The Datadog Python library

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The Datadog Python Library is a collection of tools suitable for inclusion in existing Python projects or for the development of standalone scripts. It provides an abstraction on top of Datadog's raw HTTP interface and the Agent's DogStatsD metrics aggregation server, to interact with Datadog and efficiently report events and metrics.

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## AI interpretation — verify before relying

The Datadog Python library provides HTTP API clients and DogStatsD metrics aggregation to send events, metrics, and service checks to Datadog monitoring infrastructure.

Verdict: Actively maintained library with low install friction and no known vulnerabilities. Permissive BSD-3-Clause license poses no compliance barrier. Supports Python 2.7 and 3.7+, making it suitable for both legacy and modern applications integrating with Datadog.

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