As a remote company with teams across four continents, App Builder empowers our global workforce to take action. What was once a team-specific ticket can now be handled independently through self-service, eliminating the need for another tool and extra training.

Lukas Deutz

Systems Engineer, NationBuilder

Datadog App Builder enhances our dashboard capability by generating interactive components from API data. It offers a rich development platform with helpful blueprints and building blocks for quick setup. Whether enhancing incident response or visualizing data, it’s a valuable tool.

Benjamin Lush

Site Reliability Engineer, PayByPhone Technologies, Inc.

App Builder unlocks new possibilities in Datadog, letting us pair remediation steps with dashboards to observe and resolve issues within the same ecosystem. We can build interfaces tailored to our unique infrastructure, making work easier for both Platform and Development teams.

BJ Clark

Platform Engineer, Planning Center

App Builder has allowed for even more interoperability and visibility between Datadog and our tech stacks, providing access to critical information and processes without the need for direct infrastructure access or technical knowledge.

Thomas Yang

Systems Engineer, Vital.io

Feature Overview

Datadog App Builder provides a low-code solution to rapidly develop and integrate secure, customized applications into your monitoring stack that are built to accelerate remediation at scale. App Builder provides a centralized view for observability and action, empowering you to fix issues or respond to ongoing incidents, all under one pane of glass within your monitoring stack. Using simple drag-and-drop interface with pre-built UI components and actions, users can quickly spin up high-impact applications that reduce errors and increase collaboration across your entire IT operations environment.

Rapidly develop apps using pre-built UI components and actions

Quickly build production-ready internal ops tools without front-end code knowledge
Get value instantly with a library of preconfigured blueprints solving common use cases
Integrate user-friendly UI components using drag-and-drop
Customize your applications with your own JavaScript logic

Build apps faster using Bits AI

Turn natural-language prompts into full-stack apps in seconds (e.g. “Build me an app to revert deployments in GitLab”)
Automatically generate UI components, actions, and logic that map to your existing data and permissions
Iterate via chat to tweak fields, workflows, or styling without touching code
Accelerate delivery while preserving the ability to drive into the underlying definition at any time

Increase productivity without adding tool complexity

Instantly leverage native Datadog actions across metrics, logs, monitors, and more
Integrate with a catalog of 1,750+ out-of-the-box action integrations
Maintain the flexibility to interact with any Rest API using HTTP requests
Communicate with both cloud and on-prem resources
Consolidate all of your company’s monitoring data, tool development, and observability response in one place

Store, manage, and retrieve data from your apps with Datastore

Build stateful apps with Datastore’s data persistence
Fast lookups and updates at runtime across all apps
Flexible schemas that support complex fields, including JSON objects and column updates
Collaboration tools such as a dedicated UI, out-of-the-box actions, and RBAC support

Enable anyone to take action and remediate faster

Empower teams with self-serve apps so they can proactively take action before issues become incidents
Save time and minimize context-switching by troubleshooting issues all from within the same interface
Superpower your apps by triggering workflows from Datadog Workflow Automation with a single click

Reduce errors and maintain control

Configure viewing and editing permissions for apps with granular role-based access control
Get assurance that apps are secure, work well at scale, and are accessible throughout your organization
Gain visibility into every app with audit logging and usage tracking

Centralize data and insights, and actions

Scale app availability and ensure accessibility throughout your organization
Consolidate your company’s monitoring, tool development, and observability response
Enable a stronger DevSecOps culture across your environment
Embed apps into your existing monitoring setup by adding them as widgets to Datadog dashboards