Introducing the Datadog Connector for Estuary Flow

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 Flow — 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 Flow:
• 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 Flow 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 Flow, 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 Flow, 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 Flow 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 →

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