Datadog Apm Trace Query Agent

---
name: "Datadog APM Trace Query Agent"
slug: "datadog-apm-trace-query-agent"
description: "Queries distributed traces from Datadog APM using the Trace Search API with faceted filtering. Analyzes p99 latency breakdowns across service spans and identifies slow database queries via db.statement tags."
github_stars: 791
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js"
category: "Monitoring & Alerts"
framework: "MCP"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "datadog/dd-trace-js"
  github_stars: 791
  npm_package: "dd-trace"
  npm_weekly_downloads: 6596660
---

# Datadog APM Trace Query Agent

Queries distributed traces from Datadog APM using the Trace Search API with faceted filtering. Analyzes p99 latency breakdowns across service spans and identifies slow database queries via db.statement tags.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- $ npm install dd-trace
- $ yarn add dd-trace
- $ npm install dd-trace@4 # or whatever version you need
- $ yarn add dd-trace@4 # or whatever version you need

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- # dd-trace: Node.js APM Tracer Library
- dd-trace is an npm package that you can install in your Node.js application to capture APM (Application Performance Monitoring) data. In Datadog terminology this library is called a Tracer. This data is then sent off...
- [Tracing Node.js Applications](https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/languages/nodejs/) - most project documentation, including setup instructions

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- [API Documentation](https://datadog.github.io/dd-trace-js) - method signatures, plugin list, and some usage examples

- Source: https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/dd-trace-js/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/datadog-apm-trace-query-agent/)