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API and DogStatsD client libraries

The following table lists Datadog-official and community contributed API and DogStatsD client libraries. A few libraries support both the API and DogStatsD, but most focus on one or the other.

Languages	Libraries		Author	Notes
Arduino	ArduinoStatsd	DogStatsD	Alexander Else	ArduinoStatsd is a lightweight Arduino library that allows your Arduino projects to send metrics (counters, timers, gauges, and more) to StatsD servers over UDP. It supports metric tags compatible with modern StatsD implementations, making it easy to monitor and analyze your embedded devices.
C++	cpp-datadogstatsd	DogStatsD	BoardiesITSolutions	C++ library for sending custom metrics and events from your applications to Datadog via StatsD. Supports UDP and HTTP(S) transmission, tagging, gauge, counter, timer, set, histogram, and event types, with optional asynchronous event submission and flexible tagging APIs.
	DogFood	DogStatsD	Garrett Sickles	DogFood is a lightweight, header-only C++ library for reporting metrics, events, and service checks to a Datadog Agent using the DogStatsD protocol.
C# / .NET	dogstatsd-csharp-client	Official DogStatsD	Datadog	C# client library for DogStatsD, Datadog’s extension of the StatsD metric server. Features client-side metric aggregation, batching for efficient network usage, and supports Unix domain sockets (UDS) on supported platforms.
	DatadogStatsD	DogStatsD	Gregoire Verdier	High Performance DogStatsD Client for .NET Core
Clojure	clojure-statsd-client	DogStatsD	Unbounce	A pragmatic Clojure wrapper for the official Java DogStatsD client, providing simple global setup and convenient functions to instrument your code with counters, gauges, histograms, and timers—without needing to manually manage a client instance.
CloudFormation	cdk-datadog-resources			An AWS CDK construct library that wraps the DataDog/datadog-cloudformation-resources.
Crystal	statsd.cr	DogStatsD	Mike Fiedler	A Crystal client library for sending metrics to StatsD servers. Supports counters, gauges, timers, and Datadog-style tags. Simple API for instrumenting your Crystal applications with real-time metrics.
Delphi	datadog-delphi	DogStatsD	Rodrigo Farias Rezino	datadog-delphi is a StatsD client library for Delphi, enabling Delphi applications to send metrics to Datadog via the StatsD protocol.
Elixir	ex-datadog-plug	API	Tyr Chen, Tubi	An Elixir plug for automatically logging HTTP response times and related metadata to Datadog. Easily configurable to include request methods, customizable metric prefixes, and query parameter tags for enhanced observability of your Phoenix or Plug-based applications.
	mtx	DogStatsD	N2O Ecosystem	MTX is an Erlang metrics library that provides a front-end API for tracking various metric types, including histograms, meters, counters, gauges, and timings.
	statix	DogStatsD	Aleksei Magusev	Statix is a fast and efficient Elixir client for StatsD-compatible servers, designed for high-throughput metric collection with low memory usage. It features direct socket communication, UDP packet header caching, and connection pooling to maximize performance, making it ideal for real-time monitoring and analytics in Elixir applications.
Erlang / Elixir	dogstatsde	DogStatsD	waisbrot	dogstatsde is an Erlang and Elixir client for DogStatsD, Datadog's extension of StatsD that adds support for tags on metrics. The library is easy to integrate into Erlang or Elixir projects and supports tagging, batching, and sample rate for efficient metric reporting to a DogStatsD/StatsD agent.
Go	datadog-go	Official DogStatsD	Datadog	Go client library for DogStatsD, allowing you to send custom metrics, events, and service checks from your Go applications to Datadog.
	datadog-api-client-go	Official API	Datadog	Official Go client library for the Datadog API, supporting both v1 and v2 endpoints. It enables developers to interact with Datadog programmatically for tasks such as creating users, managing incidents, querying metrics, and more. The library supports pagination, configurable retries, proxies, and logging, and can be easily integrated into Go applications.
	xstats	DogStatsD	Olivier Poitrey	xstats is a Go package for service instrumentation, providing a unified client to send various types of metrics (counters, timings, etc.) to multiple backends.
	go-datadog-api	API	Mark Smith from Dropbox	go-datadog-api is a Go client library for interacting with the Datadog API. It supports automating tasks such as managing dashboards, monitors, alerting, and retrieving data like events from Datadog. The library provides pointer-based models with helper functions for safe value handling, and includes accessor methods for working with API objects.
Haskell	Haskell Datadog Client	API DogStatsD	Ian Duncan	Haskell client for Datadog.
Java	java-dogstatsd-client	Official DogStatsD	Datadog	A Java client library for DogStatsD, enabling Java applications to send custom metrics, events, and service checks to the Datadog Agent via UDP or Unix Domain SocketsSupports modern Datadog features like origin detection and client-side aggregation to optimize performance and reduce metric traffic.
	datadog-api-client-java	Official API	Datadog	Official Java client library for the Datadog API. It enables developers to interact programmatically with Datadog’s monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and other resources from Java applications. The client provides both synchronous and asynchronous methods (using CompletableFuture), supports configuration for unstable endpoints, server selection (such as EU instances), proxy settings, request logging, GZIP compression control, retry logic on rate limits or errors, and multiple artifact options including shaded JARs.
	java-dogstatsd-client	DogStatsD	Arnab Karmakar	A Java client library for DogStatsD, enabling Java applications to send custom metrics, events, and service checks to the Datadog Agent via UDP or Unix Domain SocketsSupports modern Datadog features like origin detection and client-side aggregation to optimize performance and reduce metric traffic.
	metrics-datadog	API DogStatsD	Coursera	A reporting bridge between Dropwizard metrics and Datadog.
Lua	APISIX	DogStatsD	Apache APISIX	Send custom metrics to DogStatsD using the UDP protocol.
Node.js	datadog-api-client	Official API	Datadog	Official Node.js client for interacting with the Datadog API, allowing you to programmatically manage monitors, metrics, dashboards, incidents, and more. The client offers flexible configuration for request logging, retry logic, request timeouts, and compression. It also supports unstable endpoints, pagination helpers, and can be extended for custom HTTP behavior such as proxy support.
	hot-shots	DogStatsD	Brightcove	hot-shots is a Node.js client for sending metrics and events to StatsD servers, including Etsy’s StatsD, Datadog’s DogStatsD, and InfluxDB’s Telegraf.
	node-dogstatsd	DogStatsD	Young Han Lee	Node.js client for sending metrics to Datadog's extended StatsD server. It supports Datadog-specific features such as histograms and tags, in addition to standard StatsD metric types like counters and timers. This library allows you to easily instrument your Node.js applications with custom metrics that can be visualized and monitored in Datadog.
	node-dogapi	API	Brett Langdon	dogapi is a Node.js client library for interacting with the Datadog HTTP API. It allows you to send metrics, events, and more to Datadog programmatically from your Node.js applications. In addition to its programmatic interface, dogapi offers a command-line tool for accessing Datadog API functionality from the terminal.
	datadog-metrics	API	Daniel Bader	datadog-metrics is a Node.js library for collecting and sending custom application metrics to Datadog via its HTTP API, without needing the Datadog Agent. It buffers metrics locally for efficient, periodic submission, minimizing performance impact. datadog-metrics is ideal for environments like serverless or containers where installing the Datadog Agent is not feasible.
Perl	dogstatsd-perl	DogStatsD	Stefan Goethals	DataDogStatsd is a Perl client for DogStatsd, enabling applications to send metrics and events to Datadog. This module supports counters, gauges, histograms, timings, sets, and events with optional tags and namespaces for flexible metric organization.
PHP	php-datadogstatsd	Official DogStatsD	Alex Corley	php-datadogstatsd is a simple PHP client for sending custom metrics, events, and service checks to Datadog via DogStatsD. The library requires the PHP sockets extension and is suitable for integration into any PHP project; a Laravel-specific wrapper is also available.
	dog-statsd	DogStatsD	graze.com	A fork of thephpleague/statsd with additional Datadog features by Graze.
Python	datadogpy	Official API DogStatsD	Datadog	The Datadog Python library (datadogpy) provides convenient interfaces for interacting with Datadog’s HTTP API and sending metrics, events, and service checks via DogStatsD. It supports both UDP and Unix Domain Socket (UDS) transports for DogStatsD. It also provides a CLI tool ('dog') for API operations.
	datadog-api-client-python	Official API	Datadog	Official Python client library for the Datadog API, providing both synchronous and asynchronous (asyncio) interfaces, and includes features like pagination, retry on rate limiting, proxy configuration, and support for unstable endpoints.
R	datadogr	API		A simple R package to query for metrics.
	rdog	API	Alexis Lê-Quôc	An R package to analyze Datadog metrics into R.
Racket	racket-dogstatsd	DogStatsD	DarrenN	racket-dogstatsd is a DogStatsD client library for Racket, providing functions to send metrics, events, and service checks to Datadog. It supports counters, gauges, timers, histograms, and tagging, and includes convenient macros like with-timer for measuring code execution time. Requires Racket 6.3 or later.
Ruby	DogApi	Official API	Datadog	DogApi is a Ruby client library for interacting with the Datadog API, designed to simplify the process of reporting events and metrics from your Ruby applications or scripts. It provides a higher-level abstraction over Datadog’s HTTP API, making it easy to submit metrics, send events, tag hosts, and retrieve metric data.
	datadog_api_client	Official API	Datadog	Ruby client for interacting with the Datadog API, allowing you to manage and monitor your Datadog resources programmatically. It supports all major Datadog API endpoints, including unstable/beta features, and offers flexible configuration for authentication, server selection, logging, proxy support, pagination, and automatic retries.
	dogstatsd-ruby	Official DogStatsD	Datadog	dogstatsd-ruby enables you to send custom metrics, events, and service checks from your Ruby applications to the Datadog Agent via UDP or Unix Domain Sockets. The library supports advanced features such as asynchronous metric buffering with a dedicated sender thread for high performance, configurable packet sizes, tagging, sample rates, and origin detection for Kubernetes pods.
Rust	cadence	DogStatsD	Nick Pillitteri
	metrics-exporter-statsd	DogStatsD	GitHub
	datadog-api-client-rust	Official API	Datadog	Rust client library for interacting with the Datadog API, generated from Datadog's public OpenAPI specifications.
Scala	datadog-scala	API	Cory Watson	Datadog-Scala is a Scala client library for interacting with the Datadog API.
	datadog4s	DogStatsD	Avast	Toolkit for monitoring applications written in functional Scala using Datadog.
	scaladog	API	NomadBlacky	Datadog API client for Scala.
Swift	DatadogSDK	Official API	Datadog	The Datadog SDK for iOS and tvOS enables seamless monitoring and observability for your mobile applications. It provides Swift and Objective-C libraries to collect logs, traces, and Real User Monitoring (RUM) events, with support for WebView tracking to monitor hybrid apps.
Swift	Swift-Dogstatsd	Official DogStatsD	Datadog	Swift Dogstatsd provides an easy way to send Dogstatsd metrics from your Vapor applications. It supports both UDP and UDS transports for metrics delivery and integrates seamlessly with Application and Request contexts, allowing you to increment counters, set gauges, and more with simple method calls.
Swift	SwiftDog	API	Jacob Aronoff	Swift library for sending metrics and events to the Datadog API. It allows you to easily report custom metrics and events from your iOS or macOS app, with support for customizable tags, event priorities, and alert types. SwiftDog can be integrated using Swift Package Manager or CocoaPods, and requires a configuration file with your Datadog API and app keys.

APM & Continuous Profiler client libraries

The following table lists Datadog-official and community contributed trace client libraries.

Languages	Libraries	Author	Notes
C++	dd-trace-cpp	Datadog	C++ library for instrumenting applications with Datadog distributed tracing. It allows developers to create and manage spans, propagate trace context, and add custom tags. Compatible with C++17, dd-trace-cpp can be built as a static or shared library and is tested on major platforms, including Linux, Windows, and macOS.
.NET	dd-trace-dotnet	Datadog	The Datadog .NET Tracer enables distributed tracing, application performance monitoring, application security management, continuous integration visibility, and dynamic instrumentation. It supports a wide range of libraries out-of-the-box, with options for custom instrumentation. Also includes a continuous profiler for automatic application profiling.
Rust/C++/C	ddprof	Datadog	ddprof is a command-line profiler for compiled languages that collects CPU and memory allocation data, capturing profiling information with minimal performance overhead.
Elixir	spandex	Zach Daniel	Spandex is an Elixir library for instrumenting applications with distributed tracing, with built-in support for exporting trace data to Datadog. It provides macros and functions to create and manage spans, supports asynchronous trace propagation, and integrates with Phoenix via middleware plugs.
Go	dd-trace-go	Datadog	Datadog's APM tracer library for Go automatically instruments HTTP, gRPC, and database operations, providing visibility into request flows across services. Supports OpenTelemetry integration and custom instrumentation. Enables correlation of traces with logs and metrics in Datadog, helping identify performance bottlenecks and errors in distributed systems.
	datadog-go	Matt Ho	Go client library for DogStatsD, allowing you to send custom metrics, events, and service checks from your Go applications to Datadog.
Java	dd-trace-java	Datadog	dd-trace-java is Datadog's Java tracer library for Application Performance Monitoring (APM). It enables automatic and manual tracing and profiling of Java applications, providing features such as distributed tracing, continuous profiling, error tracking, CI visibility, deployment tracking, and code hotspot identification. The library supports automatic instrumentation of common Java frameworks and libraries, and offers APIs for custom instrumentation and advanced configuration.
	apm-client	Chas Honton	The apm-client library provides Java-based instrumentation for tracing servlet requests, JAX-RS client and server requests, and CDI bean methods. It generates spans containing resource and method names, wall time, and duration, which are then sent to a local Datadog APM collector via REST.
Node.js	dd-trace-js	Datadog	dd-trace-js is Datadog's APM (Application Performance Monitoring) tracer library for Node.js applications. It enables automatic and manual tracing of application performance, distributed traces, and integrates with the Datadog Agent to report telemetry data. Supports integration with the OpenTelemetry API for custom instrumentation.
PHP	dd-trace-php	Datadog	dd-trace-php is Datadog’s PHP tracing library that enables Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and distributed tracing for PHP applications. It provides automatic and manual instrumentation for popular PHP frameworks, libraries, and datastores.
Python	dd-trace-py	Datadog	The dd-trace-py library enables Datadog APM features for Python applications, including distributed tracing, continuous profiling, error tracking, CI visibility, deployment tracking, code hotspots, and dynamic instrumentation. It provides automatic and manual instrumentation for various Python frameworks and libraries.
Ruby	dd-trace-rb	Datadog	Datadog's official Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tracer. Collects distributed traces and performance metrics from Ruby applications and supports automatic instrumentation for popular Ruby frameworks and libraries.
	ddtrace-rb-method-wrapper	Brandfolder	ddtrace-method-wrapper is an extension for ddtrace, Datadog's Ruby tracing library, that provides a convenient way to instrument specific methods within a class or module. By extending your class with DatadogTraceWrapper and specifying methods to trace, this wrapper automatically creates custom spans for those methods.
Rust	datadog-apm	Pipefy	An unofficial library for integrating Datadog Application Performance Monitoring (APM) with Rust applications. Enables collection and reporting of tracing data to Datadog, allowing developers to monitor and analyze application performance. See the documentation and examples for integration details.

Serverless client libraries

The following table lists Datadog-official and community contributed serverless client libraries.

Languages	Libraries	Author	Notes
Lambda	datadog-lambda-python	Datadog	Provides automatic collection of enhanced Lambda metrics, distributed tracing, and enables custom metric submission to Datadog. The library supports tagging telemetry, capturing Lambda request and response payloads, filtering sensitive information from logs and traces, and advanced cold start tracing options. Optional continuous profiling allows collection of CPU and memory snapshots during Lambda execution.
	datadog-lambda-js	Datadog	datadog-lambda-js library captures traces, logs, and metrics, and provides options to tag telemetry, scrub sensitive data, and capture Lambda request/response payloads. It also supports cold start tracing, fine-grained payload depth controls, and profiling.
	datadog-lambda-rb	Datadog	The datadog-lambda-rb library enables enhanced metrics, distributed tracing, and custom metric submission for AWS Lambda functions written in Ruby, with automatic correlation between logs and traces.
	datadog-lambda-go	Datadog	Offical library for Go-based AWS Lambda functions to send enhanced Lambda metrics, custom metrics, and distributed traces to Datadog. It supports integration with Datadog tracing by injecting spans into the function context, allowing for trace propagation and creation of custom spans using dd-trace-go. The library can also unify traces from AWS X-Ray and Datadog.
	datadog-lambda-java	Datadog	Official Java client library for AWS Lambda functions that enables enhanced Lambda metrics, distributed tracing, and submission of custom metrics to Datadog. It supports automatic injection of trace headers for outbound HTTP requests 3, allowing for distributed tracing across serverless and serverful environments.
	serverless-plugin-datadog	Datadog	serverless-plugin-datadog is a Serverless Framework plugin that automates Datadog integration for AWS Lambda applications. . The plugin enables collection of enhanced metrics, distributed traces, and logs, and supports features like AWS X-Ray tracing, App and API Protection (AAP), source code integration, and continuous profiling. Supports Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, Go, and .NET runtimes.
	serverless-datadog-metrics	Dante Consulting, Inc.	This library logs useful metrics from AWS Lambda functions, so that they can be accumulated via Datadog's AWS Lambda integration.

Log management client libraries

The following table lists Datadog-official and community contributed log management client libraries.

Type	Libraries	Official	Author	Notes
Laravel	laravel-datadog-logger		Aurélien SCHILTZ	Logger, handler, and formatter created for DataDog log management on Laravel framework.

Community-contributed libraries

	Libraries	Author	Notes
Monitors	interferon	Airbnb	The Interferon gem enables you to manage alert configurations as code by defining alerts, hosts, and engineer groups in Ruby DSL and YAML files. It supports integration with Datadog as the alerting destination, allowing you to programmatically generate and update Datadog alerts based on custom logic and inventory sources (such as AWS resources or SmartStack services).
	terraform-datadog	Terraform	Official Terraform provider for Datadog
	datadog-to-terraform	Intercom	datadog-to-terraform is a browser extension that converts Datadog monitor and dashboard JSON configurations into Terraform code. Users can copy JSON from the Datadog UI, provide a resource name, and generate Terraform HCL for use in infrastructure-as-code workflows.
Integrations	k6-datadog		Integration for sending K6 test results to Datadog
	pid-stats	GitterHQ	The pid-stats integration collects resource usage metrics for processes specified by PID files and sends them to StatsD, allowing monitoring in Datadog. It samples metrics such as CPU usage (user, system, guest), memory usage (resident, virtual, percent), memory faults (major, minor), and disk I/O (read, write, cancelled) for each target process.
	pulumi-datadog		Datadog resource provider for Pulumi
	saltstack-datadog		SaltStack formula for Datadog
	sensu-datadog		Sensu handlers for sending metrics and events to Datadog
	stackstorm-datadog		Enables StackStorm to interact with Datadog by providing actions for managing monitors, events, metrics, dashboards (screenboards and timeboards), downtimes, tags, hosts, users, and embeds. It supports posting and querying time-series data, managing and muting monitors, handling events and comments, scheduling downtimes, and managing visualizations.
Agent Ports	nixos-dd-agent		NixOS package for the Datadog agent