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# Datadog

> Connect Datadog to Paradime to automatically create incidents when your Bolt pipelines fail, and monitor dbt™ pipeline health alongside the rest of your stack.

[Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/) is a monitoring and observability platform. Connecting Datadog to Paradime automatically creates incidents in Datadog whenever a Bolt schedule fails, so your team can track and resolve dbt™ pipeline issues inside the same incident workflows you already use.

## What you can do

* Automatically track dbt™ run failures as Datadog incidents
* Leverage Datadog's incident management workflows for data pipelines
* Monitor pipeline health alongside your application monitoring
* Reduce time to resolution for data pipeline issues

## Prerequisites

Before connecting Datadog to Paradime, make sure you have:

* An existing Bolt schedule
* A Datadog account
* A Datadog API Key
* A Datadog Application Key with the following permissions:
  * `incident_notification_settings_read`
  * `incident_read`
  * `incident_write`
  * `teams_read`
  * `user_access_read`

## Step 1: Gather your Datadog credentials

1. **Generate an API Key:** follow the instructions in the [Datadog documentation](https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/api-app-keys/#api-keys) and copy your API Key.
2. **Generate an Application Key:** follow the instructions in the [Datadog documentation](https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/api-app-keys/#application-keys) and copy your Application Key.

<Warning>
  **Important:** Store your API Key and Application Key securely. You will need both to configure the Paradime integration.
</Warning>

## Step 2: Connect Datadog to Paradime

1. In Paradime, go to **Settings → Integrations** (see [connecting integrations](/integrations/connecting-integrations)), find **Datadog**, and click **Connect**.
2. Select your Datadog API region.
3. Enter your Datadog API Key into the field provided.
4. Enter your Datadog Application Key into the field provided.
5. Click **Create** to establish the connection.

Once connected, Paradime will automatically create incidents in Datadog whenever Bolt runs fail.

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## Enable Datadog for your Bolt schedules

After enabling the integration, configure which Bolt schedules should create incidents in Datadog when they fail.

1. Navigate to **Bolt → Schedules** in the Paradime interface.
2. Select the schedule you want to monitor.
3. Open the [**Integration Settings**](/products/bolt/creating-schedules/trigger-integrations/trigger-datadog-incidents) for that schedule.
4. Enable **Datadog Incident Creation** to automatically create incidents in Datadog when the schedule fails.

Once enabled, any failures in the configured [Bolt schedules](/products/bolt/index) will automatically trigger incident creation in Datadog, allowing your team to respond quickly to data pipeline issues.


## Related topics

- [Trigger Datadog Incidents](/products/bolt/creating-schedules/trigger-integrations/trigger-datadog-incidents.md)
- [Create Datadog Incident](/products/bolt/creating-schedules/templates/incident-templates/create-datadog-incident.md)
- [Send Elementary dbt alerts to Datadog](/integrations/elementary-data/sending-alerts/datadog-alerts.md)
- [Bolt Trigger Integrations](/products/bolt/creating-schedules/trigger-integrations/index.md)
- [Integrations](/integrations/index.md)