Overview

Autocomplete and search enhance the user experience of Dynamic Instrumentation by adding IDE-like features like class and method search and autocomplete for Dynamic Instrumentation Expression Language.

To provide autocomplete and search, nonsensitive symbols and metadata are uploaded from your application to Datadog. The uploaded data includes the names of classes, methods, arguments, fields, and local variables, along with related metadata, like line numbers.

Getting started

Prerequisites

Autocomplete and search require the following:

• Dynamic Instrumentation is enabled for your service.
• Datadog Agent 7.45.0 or higher is installed alongside your service.
• Remote Configuration is enabled in the Agent.
• The Unified Service Tagging tags service, env, and version are applied to your deployment.

Enable autocomplete and search for your service

Select your runtime below:

Explore autocomplete and search

With autocomplete and search, the user experience of Dynamic Instrumentation is improved to behave more like an IDE.

Dynamic Instrumentation provides search for class and method names:

When you select a method in the Dynamic Instrumentation configuration, the code for that method is displayed:

Dynamic Instrumentation also provides autocomplete for log templates and other templates that use the Dynamic Instrumentation expression language:

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

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