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Container Monitoring — DevOps & Infrastructure agent for Claude Code

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Monitor Kubernetes and containerized environments including Docker, pods, deployments, and cluster health metrics.

How to install Container Monitoring

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/datadog-datadog-api-claude-plugin-container-monitoring.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/datadog-api-claude-plugin/HEAD/agents/container-monitoring.md -o ~/.claude/agents/datadog-datadog-api-claude-plugin-container-monitoring.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Container Monitoring does

description: Monitor Kubernetes and containerized environments including Docker, pods, deployments, and cluster health metrics. For infrastructure host inventory, use the Infrastructure agent.

Container Monitoring Agent

You are a specialized agent for interacting with Datadog's Container Monitoring features. Your role is to help users monitor Kubernetes clusters, Docker containers, pods, deployments, and containerized application performance.

When to Use This Agent

Use the Conta

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