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Duo offers a variety of methods for adding two-factor authentication and flexible security policies to Datadog SSO logins, complete with inline self-service enrollment and Duo Prompt.
Duo Access Gateway reaches Last Day of Support on October 26, 2023 for Duo Essentials, Advantage, and Premier customers. As of that date Duo Support may only assist with the migration of existing Duo Access Gateway applications to Duo Single Sign-On. Customers may not create new DAG applications after May 19, 2022. Please see the Guide to Duo Access Gateway end of life for more details.
Use the Duo Single Sign-on for Datadog application to protect Datadog with Duo Single Sign-On, our cloud-hosted identity provider featuring Duo Central and the Duo Universal Prompt.
Overview
As business applications move from on-premises to cloud hosted solutions, users experience password fatigue due to disparate logons for different applications. Single sign-on (SSO) technologies seek to unify identities across systems and reduce the number of different credentials a user has to remember or input to gain access to resources.
While SSO is convenient for users, it presents new security challenges. If a user's primary password is compromised, attackers may be able to gain access to multiple resources. In addition, as sensitive information makes its way to cloud-hosted services it is even more important to secure access by implementing two-factor authentication and zero-trust policies.
Duo Access Gateway
Duo Access Gateway (DAG), our on-premises SSO product, layers Duo's strong authentication and flexible policy engine on top of Datadog logins using the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 authentication standard. Duo Access Gateway acts as an identity provider (IdP), authenticating your users using existing on-premises or cloud-based directory credentials and prompting for two-factor authentication before permitting access to Datadog.
Duo Access Gateway is included in the Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and Duo Essentials plans, which also include the ability to define policies that enforce unique controls for each individual SSO application. For example, you can require that Salesforce users complete two-factor authentication at every login, but only once every seven days when accessing Datadog. Duo checks the user, device, and network against an application's policy before allowing access to the application.
Deploy or Update Duo Access Gateway
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Install Duo Access Gateway on a server in your DMZ. Follow our instructions for deploying the server, configuring DAG settings, and adding an Authentication Source.
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Add the attributes from the table below that correspond to the Duo attributes Mail attribute, Last name attribute, and First name attribute in the "Attributes" field when configuring your Active Directory or OpenLDAP authentication source in the DAG admin console, separated by a comma. For example, if Active Directory is your authentication source, enter mail,sn,givenName in the "Attributes" field.
Duo Attribute Active Directory OpenLDAP Mail attribute mail mail First name attribute givenName gn Last name attribute sn sn If your organization uses other directory attributes than the ones listed here then enter those attribute names instead. If you've already configured the attributes list for another cloud service provider, append the additional attributes not already present to the list, separated by a comma.
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After completing the initial DAG configuration steps, click Applications on the left side of the Duo Access Gateway admin console.
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Scroll down the Applications page to the Metadata section. This is the information you need to provide to Datadog when configuring SSO. Click the Download XML metadata link to obtain the DAG metadata file (the downloaded file is named "dag.xml").
Enable Datadog SSO
Add the Duo Access Gateway as a new single sign-on provider for Datadog.
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Log on to Datadog as an administrative user, mouse over your username in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, and click Configure SAML.
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Click Choose File under Identity Provider Metadata and select the dag.xml metadata file you downloaded earlier. Click Upload File.
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When the page reloads click Enable SAML.
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Make note of the Single Sign On Login URL. You will need to use this later.
Learn more about Datadog SSO at the Datadog Docs.
Create the Datadog Application in Duo
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Log on to the Duo Admin Panel and navigate to Applications → Protect an Application.
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Locate the entry for Datadog with a protection type of "2FA with SSO self-hosted (Duo Access Gateway)" in the applications list. Click Protect to the far-right to start configuring Datadog. See Protecting Applications for more information about protecting applications with Duo and additional application options.
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The Account ID is located at the end of your Single Sign On Login URL you made note of earlier. Example: If your Datadog sign on URL is https://app.datadoghq.com/account/login/id/12345ab67 your Account ID is 12345ab67.
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Datadog uses the Mail attribute, First name attribute, and Last name attribute when authenticating. We've mapped those to DAG supported authentication source attributes as follows:
Duo Attribute Active Directory OpenLDAP SAML IdP Google Azure Mail attribute mail mail mail email mail First name attribute givenName gn givenName given_name givenName Last name attribute sn sn sn family_name surname If you are using non-standard attributes for your authentication source, check the Custom attributes box and enter the names of the attributes you wish to use instead.
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Click Save Configuration to generate a downloadable configuration file.
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You can adjust additional settings for your new SAML application at this time — like changing the application's name from the default value, enabling self-service, or assigning a group policy — or come back and change the application's policies and settings after you finish SSO setup. If you do update any settings, click the Save button when done.
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Click the Download your configuration file link to obtain the Datadog application settings (as a JSON file).
Important: This file contains information that uniquely identifies this application to Duo. Secure this file as you would any other sensitive or password information. Don't share it with unauthorized individuals or email it to anyone under any circumstances!
Add the Datadog Application to Duo Access Gateway
Before you do this, verify that you updated the "Attributes" list for your Duo Access Gateway authentication source as specified here.
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Return to the Applications page of the DAG admin console session.
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Click the Choose File button in the "Add Application" section of the page and locate the Datadog SAML application JSON file you downloaded from the Duo Admin Panel earlier. Click the Upload button after selecting the JSON configuration file.
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The Datadog SAML application is added.
Log in with SSO
If your organization enabled the Duo Access Gateway portal, log into the portal page using the link provided by your administrator. Click Datadog from the dashboard to access the application.
You can also access Datadog by using the Datadog login URL that you made note of earlier. This redirects to the Duo Access Gateway login page. Enter your primary directory logon information, approve Duo two-factor authentication, and get redirected back to the Datadog site after authenticating.
Congratulations! Your Datadog users now authenticate using Duo Access Gateway.
If you plan to permit use of WebAuthn authentication methods (security keys, U2F tokens, or Touch ID) in the traditional Duo Prompt, Duo recommends configuring allowed hostnames for this application and any others that show the inline Duo Prompt before onboarding your end-users.
The Duo Universal Prompt has built-in protection from unauthorized domains so this setting does not apply.
Enforce SSO for Datadog
By default Datadog does not enforce SSO for users on the account. Open a support ticket with Datadog requesting that "SAML strict" login be enabled on your Datadog account for non-administrative users by sending an e-mail to support@datadoghq.com. Once support confirms the setting has been enabled non-administrative users will only be able to login using SSO.
Microsoft AD FS
Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) is a popular choice for SSO because it easily integrates with the AD identity store many organizations already have deployed. Duo's support for cloud applications and SSO drops in to an existing AD FS installation to provide secondary authentication after a user passes primary authentication (successful Active Directory logon).
If you don't already have AD federation running the first step is to install and configure Microsoft AD FS in your organization. Deployment Guides for AD FS versions 2.1, and 3.0/4.0 are available from Microsoft.
Once your AD FS services are up and running, the second step is to configure the SSO partnership between your AD FS service and the external cloud resource, in this case Datadog. Learn more about configuring Datadog SSO with AD FS at the Datadog Docs site.
After you have successfully configured and tested AD FS SSO login to Datadog using your AD domain credentials, you can then install the Duo AD FS integration. AD FS protection is included with Duo Essentials, Duo Advantage, and Duo Premier plans.
With the Duo integration for AD FS installed, users pass primary authentication to the AD FS service as usual. Once primary authentication succeeds, users are forwarded to the Duo service for secondary authentication. After approving logon using one of Duo's authentication methods, the user is fully logged in to Datadog.
Other Identity Partners
Using a third-party SSO provider for cloud application access? Duo partners with leading cloud SSO providers like Okta and OneLogin to secure access with our strong and flexible authentication platform.
You can also use Duo two-factor authentication with CAS and Shibboleth on-premises IdPs.
Troubleshooting
Need some help? Try searching our Knowledge Base articles or Community discussions. For further assistance, contact Support.