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Last updated: March 23, 2026

# New Capture Connector: Datadog

Stream Datadog Real User Monitoring and HTTP logs into Estuary Flow in real time to unify observability and business data for instant analytics, alerting, and automation.

# Introducing the Datadog Connector for Estuary

**Unify Your Observability Data with Real-Time and Batch Pipelines**

At Estuary, our mission is to make **instant, reliable access to real-time data** a reality for every enterprise. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the **Datadog capture connector** for Estuary — enabling you to stream **Real User Monitoring (RUM)** data and **HTTP logs** from Datadog directly into your unified data integration platform.

With this connector, observability insights can now move at the speed of your business, allowing you to **correlate performance data with application and business metrics in real time** — all within the same enterprise-grade, secure, and scalable environment.

## Why This Matters for Enterprises

- **Fragmented monitoring and analytics are costly and inefficient.** Too often, performance data lives in isolation, disconnected from the systems that power decision-making. By bringing Datadog data into Estuary:
    - **Accelerate incident resolution** – Correlate logs, RUM events, and operational data instantly.
    - **Enable proactive decision-making** – Detect trends and anomalies before they impact customers.
    - **Streamline your data stack** – Reduce complexity by unifying monitoring data with your broader analytics pipelines in a single platform.

## Connector Highlights

- **Supported Datadog Resources**  
    - `real_user_monitoring` – Capture and analyze frontend performance, latency, and user sessions.  
    - `logs` – Stream HTTP logs into your pipelines for operational visibility and correlation.
- **Seamless Real-Time Integration** – Automatic schema mapping to collections for instant use in downstream analytics or AI models.
- **Enterprise Flexibility** – Configure start dates, window sizes, and sync intervals to match your operational needs.
- **Backfill Support** – Pull in historical data within Datadog’s retention window to kickstart your analysis.

## Built for Enterprise Scale

Like every connector in Estuary, the Datadog integration benefits from our **unified, enterprise-ready platform**:

- **Real-Time + Batch in One Platform** – Stream observability data alongside historical datasets without maintaining separate tools.
- **Declarative Pipelines** – Simplify complex ingestion workflows while ensuring consistency and governance.
- **Secure Deployment Options** – Choose fully managed, hybrid, or bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) deployments for full control and compliance.

## Getting Started

To begin streaming Datadog data into Estuary, you’ll need:

1. A **Datadog account**  
2. An **API key** and an **Application key** with `rum_apps_read` permissions  
3. Your Datadog **site** (e.g. `us5.datadoghq.com`)

Once configured in the Estuary web application (or via your catalog spec for code-driven workflows), your RUM and HTTP log data will be continuously ingested and ready for action.

📚 **Step-by-step setup instructions:** [Read the Datadog Connector Documentation →](https://docs.estuary.dev/reference/Connectors/capture-connectors/datadog/)

**With the new Datadog connector, Estuary helps you bring observability into the heart of your data strategy — securely, at scale, and in real time.**

##### Streaming Pipelines.

##### Simple to Deploy.

##### Simply Priced.

$0.50/GB of data moved + $.14/connector/hour;

50% less than competing ETL/ELT solutions;

<100ms latency on streaming sinks/sources.