File Activity On A Live Dashboard
Files.com sends uploads, downloads, automation runs, user actions, and API calls into Datadog the moment they happen, so your team can build live dashboards on file activity right next to everything else they watch.
Stream Every Files.com File-Activity Event Into Datadog
Files.com runs your SFTP transfers, partner uploads, and file automations. It records everything that happens along the way: every upload, download, automation run, and user action. This integration sends that record straight into Datadog as it happens, so file activity shows up on the same dashboards and monitors your team already runs across the rest of the stack.
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Why Teams Stream Files.com Into Datadog
Your team already sends app and server logs into Datadog. File movement is usually the gap: an SFTP job that fails mid-batch overnight, a partner upload that kicks off other work, an automation shuffling files between systems. Files.com becomes a Datadog log source and sends its own activity in, so file events sit right beside the rest of your monitoring.
Sends Straight To Datadog
Files.com sends events directly into Datadog through its HTTP Logs API, secured with an API key. There’s no Datadog agent to install and no forwarder to run, so there’s nothing extra to keep patched or fix when it breaks.
You Choose Which Logs Stream
Everything streams by default. If you only want some of it, pick what each Datadog instance gets. Send transfer events to one, automation runs to another, so each team sees only the activity it watches.
A Tamper-Proof Record Behind The Stream
The events come from the Files.com audit log, which no one can edit, not even a site admin. Datadog does the charts and alerts. Files.com holds the original, trustworthy record.
One Feed For Both Ops And Security
The same stream carries transfers, automation results, and login activity. So the ops team watching throughput and the security team watching for odd downloads both work from one source.
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The Control Datadog Watches But Doesn't Provide
Datadog reads the events. It doesn't decide who can touch which files or keep the record of what they did. Files.com does that part: access folder by folder, every action written to a record that can't be changed, and the same company logins your team already uses.
Give People Access To Only Their Folders
Hand each team, project, or person the exact folders they need. The person you see on a Datadog dashboard is the same account Files.com controls access for.
A Record Of Everything That Happens
Every login, upload, download, and permission change is written to a record that can’t be altered and is kept for 7+ years. It’s the same record each event sent to Datadog traces back to, so if a chart ever looks wrong you can prove what really happened.
The Same Logins Your Company Already Uses
People sign in with your company login through SSO and SAML, and SCIM keeps accounts in sync with your directory. When someone leaves, you cut their file access in one place.
Delivery That's Encrypted And Logged
The stream to Datadog is encrypted and runs with an API key. Files.com also logs the act of sending, so if a delivery fails you can see it and look into it.
Connect Datadog The Way That Fits Your Workload
Live Stream Into Datadog
The main path. Files.com sends each event into Datadog the moment it happens, ready for dashboards, monitors, and log analytics. SIEM streaming is an Enterprise-plan feature; it isn't on Starter or Power.
Drop Log Files In A Folder
Instead of a live stream, Files.com can write log files to a folder on a schedule you set, from every 5 minutes up to every 6 hours. This works alongside the live feed, so you can run batch ingest, keep a long-term archive, or feed a locked-down network.
How Teams Use Datadog On Files.com
Watch The Nightly Batch
A scheduled SFTP job moves data every night. Files.com sends each transfer to Datadog, so the ops dashboard tracks timing, throughput, and errors. A monitor fires the moment the batch doesn’t show up, so you hear about a missed run before your partner does.
Catch Someone Pulling Too Many Files
Files.com download events flow into Datadog, where a monitor can flag one account suddenly pulling far more files than usual. That can be a sign of data walking out the door, and you catch it right next to the rest of your monitoring.
Watch Your Automations
Every automation run goes to Datadog with whether it worked. So a job that breaks or gets stuck shows up as an alert instead of failing quietly.
Dig Into A Failed Transfer
When a partner delivery is corrupt or late, your ops team jumps from the failed transfer in Datadog straight into the surrounding app and server logs. It's all on one screen, so they find the cause without hopping between tools.
Files.com Features That Pair With Datadog
Audit Log
The 7+ year record that can't be altered. It's the trustworthy source every event sent to Datadog comes from.
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Every automation run lands in Datadog as an event, marked success or failure.
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Amazon SNS
Send file events to Amazon SNS to kick off other systems at the same time you're watching them in Datadog. One stream does two jobs.
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“Files.com's strengths are simplicity, ease of use, and the cloud connectors. We don't have to invent custom infrastructure for every partner.”
Tommy Chapley
Senior Software Engineer, Equifax
“Files.com is versatile — it can manage many different situations from a single platform. We've consolidated multiple tools onto it.”
Regis Litre
Chief Information Officer, Rag & Bone
“Files.com is robust and scales to a large enterprise. We get multiple files per minute, per second — and we're a 24/7 organization, so everything has to always be up.”
Nelson Miranda
Sr. Systems Engineer, Spirit Airlines
Frequently Asked: Datadog On Files.com
Here’s how Files.com gets your file activity into Datadog, which events you can send, which plan it takes, and what happens when a delivery fails.
Files.com sends events straight into Datadog through its HTTP Logs API, secured with an API key. Events arrive in JSON, and there is no Datadog agent or other middleman to set up.
Files.com streams uploads, downloads, renames, deletions, automation runs, logins and permission changes, and API calls. Everything streams by default, and you can choose which types each Datadog instance gets.
No. Files.com sends events straight into Datadog's HTTP Logs API, so there is no Datadog agent or forwarding layer to install and maintain.
No. Streaming to Datadog is a Files.com Enterprise-plan feature and is not on the Starter or Power plans. Starter also keeps only one week of logs. See what each plan includes.
No. Files.com delivers the events; Datadog does the monitoring and alerting. Files.com records every event in a tamper-proof audit log and streams it into Datadog as it happens, so each platform does the job it's built for.
Files.com retries automatically: every 60 seconds for the first five minutes, then every 15 minutes after that. It also holds the last 7 days of logs, so the stream catches up once Datadog accepts deliveries again. Event Channels can alert your team the moment a delivery fails, and every event remains in the immutable Files.com audit log regardless.
Yes. Files.com can deliver logs as files instead of a live stream: Log File Streaming writes the same audit and activity log categories to a folder on your site at a configured interval, as JSON or CSV. Teams use it for archival, batch processing, and retention alongside or instead of the live Datadog stream.
Files.com log streaming batches and forwards complete audit log categories to Datadog roughly every 60 seconds. That is the feed for dashboards and historical analysis. Event Channels deliver individual operational events, such as SSO failures, user lockouts, and automation failures, to a webhook, Slack, Teams, SNS, or Pub/Sub target the moment they occur.
Yes. Files.com supports multiple SIEM destinations at once, each with its own selection of log types. Send everything to Datadog and a trimmed stream to a second platform, or the reverse. The selection lives in Files.com per destination.
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