README
Documentation site for Datadog
Welcome to the Datadog documentation repository. The markdown stored in this repo is published to the Datadog documentation site using hugo, a static website generation tool.
Contribute to the docs
Contributions are encouraged! If you notice something on one of the pages that needs an edit, open a pull request (PR) in this repo for the Documentation team to review. The Documentation team is added as a PR reviewer automatically.
Most pages on the documentation site feature an Edit button that sends you to the source file in this repo. You can make an edit straight from the GitHub website!
For more information on contributing, see the contribution guidelines.
[!NOTE] AI and content quality
The docs team are huge fans of AI tools like Claude Code and use them to generate content all the time. That said, we will always rely on human review to ensure that the content we publish continues to meet the high standard for quality we set for ourselves. If you submit a large AI-generated PR, remember that it takes time for us to think through how people take in and use information. It helps us if you can validate your content independently before submitting it, and plan your timelines accordingly so we can give your PR the attention it deserves.
Working on Docs
Outside Contributors
Follow these steps if you are NOT a Datadog employee:
- Fork the master branch.
- Consult our contributing guidelines.
- When you're ready to finalize your changes, commit them and make a pull request back to
DataDog/master. - A Datadog technical writer might change your PR title with a DOCS ticket number, such as "[DOCS-9000]," which means it has been added to the team's internal Jira queue to triage and review. No action is necessary from you if we change the title of your PR.