migrate-from-datadog

What problem does it solve?

This skill helps teams move APM instrumentation, traces, metrics, and logs from Datadog to the Elastic Stack with minimal service disruption and clear validation steps.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Discovery & Scoping: Clarifies whether the migration includes only APM or also logs and metrics, and identifies language and framework (Node, Python, Java, Go, .NET).
• Provisioning Guidance: Recommends Elastic Cloud or self-managed setups and ensures APM Server availability and required authentication.
• Instrumentation & Integration: Guides removal of Datadog agents and tracers, installation and configuration of Elastic APM agents, and replacement of Datadog log pipelines with Filebeat or Elastic Agent.
• Validation & Dashboard Migration: Validates traces and errors in Kibana APM, compares latency and error-rate metrics, and suggests dashboard and alert migration strategies.

Quick Start

Use the migrate-from-datadog skill to convert an existing Datadog-instrumented service to Elastic APM by installing the appropriate Elastic APM agent for your language, configuring the server URL and authentication, and verifying traces and errors in Kibana.