Onboarding Summary
- 226 installs
- 147 repo stars
- Updated July 29, 2026
- datadog-labs/agent-skills
Generate concise Datadog onboarding summaries so new engineers, SREs, or customers understand required agents, integrations, dashboards, and first-week observability setup.
About
The onboarding-summary skill from datadog-labs/agent-skills helps Claude produce structured Datadog onboarding summaries covering monitoring scope, agent setup, key integrations, dashboards, and first actions so new operators ramp faster with less repeated explanation.
- Datadog-focused onboarding narrative
- Captures agents, integrations, and dashboards
- Speeds new engineer and customer ramp
- Turns tribal knowledge into reusable docs
- Supports ongoing observability adoption
Onboarding Summary by the numbers
- 226 all-time installs (skills.sh)
- Ranked #498 of 1,879 Documentation skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
- Data as of Jul 30, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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| Installs | 226 |
|---|---|
| repo stars | ★ 147 |
| Last updated | July 29, 2026 |
| Repository | datadog-labs/agent-skills ↗ |
What it does
Generate concise Datadog onboarding summaries so new engineers, SREs, or customers understand required agents, integrations, dashboards, and first-week observability setup.
Files
APM Onboarding Summary
Triggers
Invoke this skill when:
- All steps in
verify-ssihave passed - All checks in
troubleshoot-ssihave been resolved - The user asks "is everything working?", "show me the status", or "confirm APM is set up"
Do NOT invoke this skill if any verification or troubleshooting check is still failing — resolve those first.
---
Context to resolve before acting
| Variable | How to resolve |
|---|---|
AGENT_NAMESPACE | Namespace where Datadog Agent is installed |
APP_NAMESPACE | Namespace of the application |
APP_LABEL | Check spec.selector.matchLabels.app in the Deployment manifest |
CLUSTER_NAME | spec.global.clusterName in datadog-agent.yaml |
SERVICE_NAME | tags.datadoghq.com/service label on the Deployment |
ENV | tags.datadoghq.com/env label on the Deployment |
DD_SITE | spec.global.site in datadog-agent.yaml |
---
Prerequisites
Claude runs
pup auth status --site <DD_SITE>If valid token — proceed.
ERROR: Not authenticated:
Claude runs
pup auth login --site <DD_SITE>This opens a browser tab for OAuth. Complete the login there — Claude will continue once the command exits.
---
Collect live confirmation data
Run all of the following. Each populates a row in the final report.
Claude runs
# Agent pod count and status
kubectl get pods -n <AGENT_NAMESPACE> \
-l app.kubernetes.io/component=agent \
--no-headers
# SSI instrumentation config live in cluster
kubectl get datadogagent datadog -n <AGENT_NAMESPACE> \
-o jsonpath='{.spec.features.apm.instrumentation}'
# Init container confirmed in app pod spec
kubectl get pod -l app=<APP_LABEL> -n <APP_NAMESPACE> \
-o jsonpath='{.items[0].spec.initContainers[*].name}'
# Pod confirmed instrumented — init containers in pod spec
kubectl get pod -l app=<APP_LABEL> -n <APP_NAMESPACE> \
-o jsonpath='{.items[0].spec.initContainers[*].name}'
# Service visible and traced in APM
DD_SITE=<DD_SITE> pup apm services list --env <ENV> --from 1h
# Traces arriving in the last hour
DD_SITE=<DD_SITE> pup traces search --query "service:<SERVICE_NAME>" --from 1h --limit 5---
Present the report
Fill in every value from live command output. Do not leave any placeholder unfilled. If a value cannot be confirmed, mark that row as failed and link to troubleshoot-ssi.
---
APM onboarding complete
| Check | Detail | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Datadog Agent | <N> pod(s) Running in <AGENT_NAMESPACE> | OK |
| SSI enabled | Targeting namespace <APP_NAMESPACE>, language <LANGUAGE> v<MAJOR_VERSION> | OK |
| Init container injected | datadog-lib-<language>-init present in pod spec | OK |
| Pod instrumented | <POD_NAME> in pup fleet instrumented-pods list | OK |
| Tracer reporting | Service <SERVICE_NAME>, <LANGUAGE>, tracer v<TRACER_VERSION> | OK |
| APM service visible | <SERVICE_NAME> in env <ENV> | OK |
| Traces arriving | <N> trace(s) found in the last hour | OK |
---
Your service in Datadog — click to open:
Construct each URL by substituting real values. Do not print placeholder URLs.
| View | URL |
|---|---|
| Service overview | https://app.<DD_SITE>/apm/services/<SERVICE_NAME>?env=<ENV> |
| Traces explorer | https://app.<DD_SITE>/apm/traces?query=service:<SERVICE_NAME>%20env:<ENV> |
| Service map | https://app.<DD_SITE>/apm/map?env=<ENV>&service=<SERVICE_NAME> |
| Agent fleet | https://app.<DD_SITE>/fleet-automation |
---
Security constraints
- Never write a raw API key into any file or chat message
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