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Datadog to Elasticsearch integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Datadog and Elasticsearch in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Datadog and Elasticsearch

Keep Elasticsearch and Datadog in step: the rows in your database and the Metrics, Incidents, Service Level Objectives, Hosts your engineering tools track stay consistent in real time, in both directions.

Elasticsearch is where your application's durable data lives; Datadog is where engineering and operations teams track the issues, events, messages, or identities that run alongside it. The two overlap constantly, a row should open a ticket, an alert should land as a record, a user in one should exist in the other, but bridging them today means per-tool integration code: auth, webhooks, pagination, rate limits, and retries, built and maintained separately for every tool.

Stacksync syncs Index templates, Indices, Documents, Index mappings in Elasticsearch with Metrics, Incidents, Service Level Objectives, Hosts in Datadog field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields; Stacksync keeps every copy consistent and resolves conflicts by rules you set, so the database and the tooling around it never drift apart.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync CRM accounts and contacts into an Elasticsearch index to power internal search across customer records.
  • 02 Push product catalog data from an ERP or commerce database into Elasticsearch for storefront search.
  • 03 Load Events and Incidents into a warehouse to correlate deploys, alerts, and outages on one timeline for post-incident review.
  • 04 Pull the Hosts inventory into a CMDB or database for asset tracking, tag hygiene, and cost allocation across teams.

Common sync patterns

One integration pattern instead of per-tool API code

Read and write the synced tables in Elasticsearch and Stacksync keeps Datadog current, replacing the auth, webhooks, rate limits, and retry logic you would otherwise maintain for each tool.

React to changes on either side in near real time

Updates in Datadog arrive as row changes in Elasticsearch, and writes to Elasticsearch propagate to Datadog within seconds, so triggers, jobs, and alerts fire without polling.

Where Datadog manages users or groups: keep identity aligned

Directory and identity records in Datadog stay matched to the users or owners table in Elasticsearch, so provisioning and de-provisioning flow from one source.

What you can sync between Datadog and Elasticsearch

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Datadog objects Elasticsearch objects How this pairing syncs
Incidents Incident records from the v2 Incidents API with full CRUD, including status and timeline fields; landed in a database for MTTR reporting or created and updated from an external incident workflow. Documents The unit of sync; JSON records created, updated, and deleted by _id. Incidents is specific to Datadog and Documents to Elasticsearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Service Level Objectives SLO definitions and status history via the v1 SLO API with full CRUD; read out for reliability and error-budget reporting, or provisioned and updated from a reliability config. Index mappings Field type definitions that determine how synced fields are indexed and queried. Service Level Objectives is specific to Datadog and Index mappings to Elasticsearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Hosts Infrastructure host inventory with tags and metadata from the v1 host list API; loaded into a CMDB or warehouse for asset tracking, and hosts can be muted or unmuted via the API. Aliases Stable read/write names that let a sync cut over between index versions without downtime. Hosts is specific to Datadog and Aliases to Elasticsearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Monitors Alert definitions with query, thresholds, and current state via the v1 Monitors API, which supports full create, update, and delete; Stacksync reads alert state into a warehouse or provisions and updates monitors from a config source. Data streams Append-only targets for time-series or event data pushed from source systems. Monitors is specific to Datadog and Data streams to Elasticsearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Logs Log events searched via the v2 Logs search endpoint by time window and submittable through the log intake API; commonly streamed to a warehouse for retention beyond Datadog's storage period. Ingest pipelines Server-side transforms applied to documents as a sync writes them. Logs is specific to Datadog and Ingest pipelines to Elasticsearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Events The event stream (deploys, alerts, comments) searched via the v2 Events endpoint and posted via POST /api/v1/events; used to correlate deploy and incident timelines or to publish deploy and pipeline events into Datadog. Index templates Reusable settings and mappings applied automatically to new indices a sync creates. Events is specific to Datadog and Index templates to Elasticsearch — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Datadog and Elasticsearch

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Datadog Elasticsearch Sub-second propagation

DetectionDatadog notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Polling with time-windowed search queries on Logs and Events (timestamp cursor).

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Elasticsearch through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Elasticsearch Datadog Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Elasticsearch for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on timestamp or sequence fields.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Datadog through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Datadog: Per-endpoint limits return HTTP 429 with X-RateLimit-Limit/-Remaining/-Period/-Reset headers. Log ingestion and metric submission are not rate limited; search endpoints such as Logs and Events queries carry quotas that Datadog Support can raise.
  • Elasticsearch: No fixed request quota; throughput is bounded by cluster sizing, thread pools, and bulk queue capacity.
What ships with Datadog ⇄ Elasticsearch

Connect Datadog and Elasticsearch for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Datadog–Elasticsearch connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Datadog or Elasticsearch instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Datadog or Elasticsearch data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Datadog or Elasticsearch record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Datadog ⇄ Elasticsearch sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Datadog and Elasticsearch.

How the Datadog and Elasticsearch connectors work

Datadog

Integration surface
REST API (v1 and v2)
Authentication
API key (DD-API-KEY) plus an Application key (DD-APPLICATION-KEY) sent as request headers; application keys are tied to the creating user and inherit that user's permissions and authorization scopes.
Change detection
Polling with time-windowed search queries on Logs and Events (timestamp cursor); monitor alerts can also push via the Webhooks notification integration. No modified-date CDC on mutable objects.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Per-endpoint limits return HTTP 429 with X-RateLimit-Limit/-Remaining/-Period/-Reset headers. Log ingestion and metric submission are not rate limited; search endpoints such as Logs and Events queries carry quotas that Datadog Support can raise.

Elasticsearch

Integration surface
REST API (JSON over HTTP)
Authentication
API keys or basic authentication; Elastic Cloud also issues service account tokens
Change detection
Polling on timestamp or sequence fields; Elasticsearch does not expose a native change feed or webhooks
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No fixed request quota; throughput is bounded by cluster sizing, thread pools, and bulk queue capacity
How it works

How to connect Datadog to Elasticsearch — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Datadog and Elasticsearch with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Datadog connected
    Elasticsearch connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Datadog and Elasticsearch objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Datadog ⇄ Elasticsearch
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Datadog Elasticsearch
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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