Connection guide
How to connect GitHub Copilot (VS Code) to your Datadog costs
Connect GitHub Copilot to your Datadog costs through Costory's FinOps MCP. GitHub Copilot gets Datadog spend allocated to teams and features, next to the deploys and metrics that explain it.
What you can ask GitHub Copilot about Datadog
“Why did our Datadog bill move this month?”
“Correlate the cost spike with Datadog traffic metrics.”
“Show Datadog CI spend by pipeline.”
“Which team owns most of this month's increase?”
“Set up a weekly Slack report of this spend for #finops.”
What GitHub Copilot sees
Costory ingests Datadog cost through Datadog usage and billing estimates (+ metrics and CI Visibility), normalizes it into one cost model alongside your other providers, and allocates it with products, usage types, teams; Datadog metrics next to cost. Through the MCP server, GitHub Copilot can query that allocated cost, compare periods, look up deploys and other events in the same window, and create alerts, reports and dashboards in Costory. It has no write access to your cloud accounts.
Good to know for this setup
Copilot in VS Code reads Costory from .vscode/mcp.json, under "servers", with type "http" and the Costory URL. Committing that file shares the setup with the repository.
Datadog billing is an estimate until invoiced; compare against usage.
Set up in about 30 minutes
1. Connect Datadog to Costory. Follow the Datadog setup guide in the docs.
2. Map spend to owners. Use Virtual Dimensions to group accounts, projects, labels and tags into teams, products and environments, even where tagging is incomplete.
3. Add Costory to VS Code with GitHub Copilot.
Add Costory to .vscode/mcp.json and use Copilot in agent mode:
No local proxy or Node.js is needed: point the client directly at https://app-api.costory.io/mcp.
Full client instructions: MCP setup guide.
Good to know
Datadog billing is an estimate until invoiced; compare against usage.
Datadog tools compared
Datadog MCP | Costory MCP | |
|---|---|---|
Scope | Provider-specific | AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, data platforms, LLM APIs |
Allocation to teams | Not built in | Virtual Dimensions |
Deploys and events next to cost | No | Yes (GitHub, CI/CD, custom events) |
Actions | Provider-specific | Alerts, reports, dashboards, events in Costory |
Based on each tool's public documentation; check current docs before deciding.
FAQ
Does GitHub Copilot get write access to my Datadog account?
No. Costory reads billing data you export to it. MCP actions create Costory objects (alerts, reports, dashboards, events) and never change your cloud resources.
What Datadog permissions does Costory need?
Read access to billing data only. The exact permissions are listed in the Datadog setup guide.
Where is the data stored?
Costory stores and processes data in the EU.
How much does it cost?
Plans start at €250/month (up to €10M annual cloud spend), billed annually, with a 30-day free trial. See pricing.
Playbooks
Playbooks for Datadog
What the Costory agent can watch, investigate and report on for you, with this in the loop.
All playbooks
Costory notices
Daily, as Datadog usage and the EKS bill refresh.
Dynamic cost reallocation for EKS using Datadog usage
Split shared EKS cluster costs across teams in proportion to what each team's workloads actually use, measured in Datadog.
See the playbook
Costory notices
A service runs well below its capacity for 30 days.
Rightsizing recommendations grounded in real usage
The agent compares what you pay for compute with what services actually use in CloudWatch or Datadog, then recommends instance sizes to the owning team, with the deploy history attached.
See the playbook
Costory notices
An anomaly is detected, any time of day.
Investigate anomalies in a Slack thread with the FinOps agent
When an alert fires in #finops or a team channel, reply in the thread and the FinOps agent investigates: which team, which service, which deploy.
See the playbook
Costory notices
A shared API or platform bill lands without an owner.
Split shared API costs across teams with usage data
Allocate untagged or shared API costs, like a single LLM key or a shared data platform account, to teams based on actual usage.
See the playbook
Connect in under 30 minutes. Get your first optimization recommendation the next day.
30-day free trial. Copilot, €250/month, or Copilot Pro, €1,000/month, billed annually.
First optimization recommendation
The next day
ROI
Pays for itself with the first recommendation you act on
Setup
About 30 minutes
Data residency
EU
Access
Read-only on your cloud