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Fugo's Datadog app lets you display a live Datadog dashboard on your digital signage screens without leaving a browser tab open and signed in on a device near your screen.

Instead of streaming your dashboard from an open, signed-in browser session, Fugo signs in to Datadog on a schedule using credentials you provide once, captures an up-to-date screenshot of your dashboard, and displays that image on screen like any other piece of content. Your credentials and any secret key are encrypted and stored securely, and you control how often Fugo refreshes the screenshot.

Before you connect your dashboard, a couple of recommendations that will help keep your Datadog dashboard running smoothly in Fugo:

Create a dedicated, least-privileged (read-only where possible) Datadog account for Fugo to use, rather than an individual team member's login. This avoids interruptions from unexpected logouts or security alerts, and limits what Fugo can access in your Datadog org.

You can find instructions for setting up a dedicated service account with Google Workspace here.

You'll need the URL of the specific Datadog dashboard you want to display – not just your org's homepage. Open the dashboard in Datadog, copy its URL, and keep it handy for the setup steps below.

When you connect a Datadog dashboard, Fugo checks that your URL is on the datadoghq.com domain, then asks you to choose how Fugo should sign in. Datadog supports two sign-in methods:

Fugo signs in directly with your Datadog username and password, the same as logging in to your org without an identity provider in between.

If your organization uses Okta to sign in to Datadog (single sign-on), choose this option and Fugo will follow Okta's sign-in flow before landing back in Datadog.

A Secret Key is the same kind of alphanumeric seed value an authenticator app (like Google Authenticator or Authy) uses to generate a time-based one-time code (TOTP). Fugo uses it to generate the correct 2FA code automatically each time it signs in, so you won't need to re-authenticate manually. How you get this key depends on how you sign in to Datadog.

If you use Okta to sign in to Datadog, get your secret key from Okta:

Datadog lets accounts that log in with an email and password (not through SSO) turn on their own multi-factor authentication. To set it up:

1. Make sure you're logged in with a username and password, not through SSO.

2. Go to Personal Settings from your account menu, then under Security select Password & Authentication.

3. Next to Authenticator App, select Add. Datadog will show you a QR code – if you can't scan it, look for a manual entry option to reveal the setup key as text instead.

4. Copy and save that key securely – you'll need it again shortly – then enter the code your authenticator app generates to finish setup.

With your secret key saved (if you need one), you're ready to connect your dashboard in Fugo.

1. Log in to your Fugo account. If you don't have one yet, start your free trial at www.fugo.ai/app.

2. Go to Dashboards in the left-hand navigation, then click Create Dashboard.

3. Under Browse dashboards, select the Datadog tile.

4. Enter the URL of your specific Datadog dashboard. Fugo checks that it's on the datadoghq.com domain before letting you continue.

5. Choose your authentication method: Sign in with Datadog or Sign in with Okta.

6. Enter your username, password, and secret key (if 2FA is enabled) as described above.

7. Click Create dashboard.

8. This opens the dashboard editor. In the background, Fugo uses your URL and credentials to sign in and capture a screenshot – this can take a minute or two. You can close the editor and come back later, or configure settings while you wait (see Edit your dashboard – advanced settings below).

9. Give your dashboard a name – you'll need one to save it.

10. Once saved, your dashboard appears in your Dashboards library with a default refresh interval of once per day.

Not every dashboard is "screen ready" as-is – some are long, dense, or have small elements that are hard to read from a distance.

Add your saved dashboard to a Design Studio canvas to crop it down to just the chart or panel you need, and combine it with other apps, text, or media on the same slide. Open (or start) a Studio design, find your dashboard under the Dashboards panel, and drag it onto the canvas.

From there you can crop, resize, and combine it with other elements, then publish the design to a playlist the same way described below.

👉 Learn how in our Design Studio overview

A dashboard isn't published directly from the editor or your library. Instead:

1. Open (or create) a playlist, and add your dashboard to it as a content item.

2. Target that playlist to the screen(s) you want it to appear on.

3. Publish the playlist.

The same dashboard can be reused across multiple playlists and screens – updating and saving it updates everywhere it's used, so you don't need to republish each screen individually.

👉 Learn how in our Playlists overview

Clicking your dashboard in the library opens the dashboard editor, where you can adjust the Refresh Interval (how often Fugo re-captures your dashboard), resolution, and other capture settings, and choose whether Fugo runs the sign-in/capture steps in the cloud, on your own on-premise server, or on the player device itself.

These settings work the same way for every dashboard type.

👉 See the full breakdown – including Resolution, Pause duration, Memory, Proxy region, and On-Premise/Local Player options – in our Dashboards Overview.

If you run into trouble setting up or troubleshooting your Datadog dashboard, reach out to us any time: