Service Definition Schema is a JSON Schema that can be used to define metadata about a service in Datadog's Service Catalog. The latest schema version is v2. The schema is often used to:
- Communicate a set of accepted metadata fields for a service
- Provide client side validations against user defined metadata files
- Add auto completion and validation in popular IDEs for user defined metadata files
Service Catalog is a new Datadog product that allows you to easily manage service ownership at scale and identify dependencies in complex, microservice-based applications. Built on top of the unified Datadog observability platform, Service Catalog helps you:
- Streamline root-cause investigations via a unified observability tool that leverages built-in integrations for Slack, PagerDuty, and Source Code
- Automatically discover hundreds of APM services and RUM applications to quickly find owners, on-call engineers, and critical resources with minimal engineering effort
- Shorten new hire onboarding time with out-of-the-box answers to questions about system architecture, ownership, and different types of telemetry
Check out our onboarding guide on how to get started.
