Sync from Datadog to Kafka

with open data movement

Extract and load (ELT) your Datadog data into Kafka in minutes with our open-source data integration connector.

Eliminate the time you spend on building and maintaining your data pipelines by integrating your data with Airbyte instead.
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Start syncing data from Datadog to Kafka in three easy steps

1

Setup a Datadog connector in Airbyte

Connect to Datadog or one of 400 Airbyte data sources through simple account authentication

2

Set up Kafka as the destination connector

Connect to Kafka or one of 50+ Airbyte data destinations through simple account authentication

3

Sync your Data

This includes selecting the data you want to extract - streams and columns -, the sync frequency, where in Kafka you want that data to be loaded.

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Ship more quickly with the only solution that fits ALL your needs.

As your tools and edge cases grow, you deserve an extensible and open ELT solution that eliminates the time you spend on building and maintaining data pipelines

Leverage the largest catalog of  connectors

Airbyte’s catalog of 300+ pre-built, no-code connectors is the largest in the industry and is doubling every year, thanks to its open-source community, while closed-source catalogs have plateaued.

Cover your custom needs with our extensibility

Build custom connectors in 10 min with our Connector Development Kit (CDK), and get them maintained by us or our community. Add them to Airbyte to enable your whole team to leverage them.
Customize ANY Airbyte connectors to address Your custom needs. Our connector’s code is open-source, so you can edit it as you see fit.

Reliability at every level

Airbyte ensure your team’s time is no longer time spent on maintenance with our reliability SLAs on our GA connectors.
Airbyte will also give you visibility and control of your data freshness at the stream level for all your connections.

It’s never been easier to integrate your Datadog data into Kafka

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Self-host the leading open-source data movement platform with the largest catalog of ELT connectors.

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The easiest way to address all your ELT needs. Largest catalog of connectors, all customizable.

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Why choose Airbyte as the backbone of your data infrastructure?

Keep your data engineering costs in check

Building and maintaining custom connectors have become 5x easier with Airbyte. Enable your data engineering teams to focus on projects that are more valuable to your business.
Given 44% of data teams are spent on maintaining brittle in-house connectors, this is a new level of internal resources that you get back.

Get Airbyte hosted where you need it to be

Airbyte helps you deploy your pipelines in production with two deployment options for the data plane:
  • Airbyte Cloud: Have it hosted by us, with all the security you need (SOC2, ISO, GDPR, HIPAA Conduit).
  • Airbyte Enterprise: Have it hosted within your own infrastructure, so your data and secrets never leave it.

White-glove enterprise-level support

With an average response rate of 10 minutes or less and a Customer Satisfaction score of 96/100, our team is ready to support your data integration journey all over the world.

Including for your Airbyte Open Source instance with our premium support.
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FAQs

What is ETL?

ETL, an acronym for Extract, Transform, Load, is a vital data integration process. It involves extracting data from diverse sources, transforming it into a usable format, and loading it into a database, data warehouse or data lake. This process enables meaningful data analysis, enhancing business intelligence.

What is Datadog?

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics tool for information technology (IT) and DevOps teams that can be used for performance metrics as well as event monitoring for infrastructure and cloud services. The software can monitor services such as servers, databases and appliances Datadog monitoring software is available for on-premises deployment or as Software as a Service (SaaS). Datadog supports Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. Support for cloud service providers includes AWS, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, and Google Cloud Platform.

What is Kafka?

A communication solutions agency, Kafka is a cloud-based / on-prem distributed system offering social media services, public relations, and events. For event streaming, three main functionalities are available: the ability to (1) subscribe to (read) and publish (write) streams of events, (2) store streams of events indefinitely, durably, and reliably, and (3) process streams of events in either real-time or retrospectively. Kafka offers these capabilities in a secure, highly scalable, and elastic manner.

What data can you extract from Datadog?

Datadog's API provides access to a wide range of data related to monitoring and analytics of IT infrastructure and applications. The following are the categories of data that can be accessed through Datadog's API:  

1. Metrics: Datadog's API provides access to a vast collection of metrics related to system performance, network traffic, application performance, and more.  
2. Logs: The API allows users to retrieve logs generated by various applications and systems, which can be used for troubleshooting and analysis.  
3. Traces: Datadog's API provides access to distributed traces, which can be used to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize application performance.  
4. Events: The API allows users to retrieve events generated by various systems and applications, which can be used for alerting and monitoring purposes.  
5. Dashboards: Users can retrieve and manage dashboards created in Datadog, which can be used to visualize and analyze data from various sources.  
6. Monitors: The API allows users to create, update, and manage monitors, which can be used to alert on specific conditions or events.  
7. Synthetic tests: Datadog's API provides access to synthetic tests, which can be used to simulate user interactions with applications and systems to identify performance issues.  

Overall, Datadog's API provides a comprehensive set of data that can be used to monitor and optimize IT infrastructure and applications.

How do I transfer data from Datadog to Kafka?

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps: 
1. Set up Datadog as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
2. Set up Kafka as a destination connector
3. Define which data you want to transfer and how frequently
You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud. 

What are top ETL tools to extract data from

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data from Datadog to Kafka include:
- Airbyte
- Fivetran
- StitchData
- Matillion
- Talend Data Integration
These tools help in extracting data from Datadog and various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into Kafka and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.

What is ELT?

ELT, standing for Extract, Load, Transform, is a modern take on the traditional ETL data integration process. In ELT, data is first extracted from various sources, loaded directly into a data warehouse, and then transformed. This approach enhances data processing speed, analytical flexibility and autonomy.

Difference between ETL and ELT?

ETL and ELT are critical data integration strategies with key differences. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) transforms data before loading, ideal for structured data. In contrast, ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) loads data before transformation, perfect for processing large, diverse data sets in modern data warehouses. ELT is becoming the new standard as it offers a lot more flexibility and autonomy to data analysts.

Datadog to Kafka in minutes.

ETL your Datadog data into Kafka, in minutes, for free, with our open-source data integration connectors. In the format you need with post-load transformation.

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Kafka
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Select the Datadog data that you want to replicate.

The Datadog source connector can be used to sync the following tables:

AuditLogs
Includes Search Audit Logs events, and Get a list of Audit Logs events.
Dashboards
Includes Create a new dashboard, Create a shared dashboard, Get a shared dashboard, Get all dashboards, Delete a dashboard, and more.
Downtimes
Downtimes
IncidentTeams
Includes Get details of an incident team, Delete an existing incident team, Update an existing incident team, Get a list of all incident teams, and Create a new incident team.
Create an incident
Includes Get the details of an incident, Update an existing incident, Delete an existing incident, Get a list of incidents, Get a list of attachments, Create, update, and delete incident attachments.

About Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics tool for information technology (IT) and DevOps teams that can be used for performance metrics as well as event monitoring for infrastructure and cloud services. The software can monitor services such as servers, databases and appliances Datadog monitoring software is available for on-premises deployment or as Software as a Service (SaaS). Datadog supports Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. Support for cloud service providers includes AWS, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, and Google Cloud Platform.

Start analyzing your Datadog data in minutes with the right data transformation

airbyte data transformation screenshot

Full control over the data

You select the data you want to replicate, and this for each destination you want to replicate your

Datadog

data to.

Normalized schemas

You can opt for getting the raw data, or to explode all nested API objects in separate tables.

Custom transformation via dbt

You can add any dbt transformation model you want and even sequence them in the order you need, so you get the data in the exact format you need at your cloud data warehouse, lake or data base.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your Kafka needs

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Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates to

Kafka

.

play
Replicate Salesforce data to Snowflake with incremental

Manual full refresh

Easily re-sync all your data when

Kafka

has been desynchronized from the data source.

Change Data Capture for databases

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About Kafka

A communication solutions agency, Kafka is a cloud-based / on-prem distributed system offering social media services, public relations, and events. For event streaming, three main functionalities are available: the ability to (1) subscribe to (read) and publish (write) streams of events, (2) store streams of events indefinitely, durably, and reliably, and (3) process streams of events in either real-time or retrospectively. Kafka offers these capabilities in a secure, highly scalable, and elastic manner.

Why Choose Airbyte for your Datadog and Kafka data integration

Airbyte is the new open-source ETL platform, and enables you to replicate your

Datadog

data in the destination of your choice, in minutes.

Maintenance-free

Heading

connector

Just authenticate your Datadog account and destination, and your new Datadog data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

Extensible as open-sourced

With Airbyte, you can easily adapt the open-source Datadog ETL connector to your exact needs. All connectors are open-sourced.

No more security compliance issues​

Use Airbyte’s open-source edition to test your data pipeline without going through 3rd-party services. This will make your security team happy.

Normalized schemas​

Engineers can opt for raw data, analysts for normalized schemas. Airbyte offers several options that you can leverage with dbt.

Orchestration & scheduling​

Airbyte integrates with your existing stack. It can run with Airflow & Kubernetes and more are coming.

Monitoring & alerts on your terms​

Delays happen. We log everything and let you know when issues arise. Use our webhook to get notifications the way you want.

Datadog to Kafka in minutes

ETL your Datadog data into Kafka, in minutes, for free, with our open-source data integration connectors. In the format you need with post-load transformation.

We don't support the
Datadog
connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
We don't support the
Kafka
connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
We don't support the
Datadog
and
Kafka
connectors yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize them, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your Datadog database needs.

Full control over the data

The 

Datadog

 source does not alter the schema present in your database. Depending on the destination connected to this source, however, the schema may be altered.

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Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates.

Log-based incremental replication

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics tool for information technology (IT) and DevOps teams that can be used for performance metrics as well as event monitoring for infrastructure and cloud services. The software can monitor services such as servers, databases and appliances Datadog monitoring software is available for on-premises deployment or as Software as a Service (SaaS). Datadog supports Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. Support for cloud service providers includes AWS, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, and Google Cloud Platform.

Start analyzing your Datadog data in minutes with the right data transformation

airbyte data transformation screenshot

Full control over the data

You select the data you want to replicate, and this for each destination you want to replicate your Datadog data to.

Normalized schemas

You can opt for getting the raw data, or to explode all nested API objects in separate tables.

Custom transformation via dbt

You can add any dbt transformation model you want and even sequence them in the order you need, so you get the data in the exact format you need at your cloud data warehouse, lake or data base.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your Kafka needs

calendar icon

Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates to Kafka.

play
Replicate Salesforce data to Snowflake with incremental

Manual full refresh

Easily re-sync all your data when Kafka has been desynchronized from the data source.

Change Data Capture for databases

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About Kafka

A communication solutions agency, Kafka is a cloud-based / on-prem distributed system offering social media services, public relations, and events. For event streaming, three main functionalities are available: the ability to (1) subscribe to (read) and publish (write) streams of events, (2) store streams of events indefinitely, durably, and reliably, and (3) process streams of events in either real-time or retrospectively. Kafka offers these capabilities in a secure, highly scalable, and elastic manner.

Why choose Airbyte for your Datadog and Kafka data integration.

Airbyte is the new open-source ETL platform, and enables you to replicate your Datadog data in the destination of your choice, in minutes.

Maintenance-free

Heading

connector

Just authenticate your

Datadog

account and destination, and your new

Datadog

data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

Extensible as open-sourced

With Airbyte, you can easily adapt the open-source

Datadog

ETL connector to your exact needs. All connectors are open-sourced.

No more security compliance issues​

Use Airbyte’s open-source edition to test your data pipeline without going through 3rd-party services. This will make your security team happy.

Normalized schemas​

Engineers can opt for raw data, analysts for normalized schemas. Airbyte offers several options that you can leverage with dbt.

Orchestration & scheduling​

Airbyte integrates with your existing stack. It can run with Airflow & Kubernetes and more are coming.

Monitoring & alerts on your terms​

Delays happen. We log everything and let you know when issues arise. Use our webhook to get notifications the way you want.