diff --git a/modules/module-list.nix b/modules/module-list.nix
index ae5e5d5c49f..db54f5665a7 100644
--- a/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@
   ./services/misc/rogue.nix
   ./services/misc/svnserve.nix
   ./services/misc/synergy.nix
+  ./services/monitoring/dd-agent.nix
   ./services/monitoring/monit.nix
   ./services/monitoring/nagios/default.nix
   ./services/monitoring/smartd.nix
diff --git a/modules/services/monitoring/dd-agent.nix b/modules/services/monitoring/dd-agent.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c0493557d56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/services/monitoring/dd-agent.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+with pkgs.lib;
+
+let
+  cfg = config.services.dd-agent;
+
+  datadog-conf = pkgs.runCommand "datadog.conf" {} ''
+    sed -e 's|^api_key:|api_key: ${cfg.api_key}|' ${optionalString (cfg.hostname != null)
+      "-e 's|^#hostname: mymachine.mydomain|hostname: ${cfg.hostname}|'"
+    } ${pkgs.dd-agent}/etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf.example > $out
+  '';
+in {
+  options.services.dd-agent = {
+    enable = mkOption {
+      description = "Whether to enable the dd-agent montioring service";
+
+      default = false;
+
+      type = types.bool;
+    };
+
+    # !!! This gets stored in the store (world-readable), wish we had https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8
+    api_key = mkOption {
+      description = "The Datadog API key to associate the agent with your account";
+
+      example = "ae0aa6a8f08efa988ba0a17578f009ab";
+
+      type = types.uniq types.string;
+    };
+
+    hostname = mkOption {
+      description = "The hostname to show in the Datadog dashboard (optional)";
+
+      default = null;
+
+      example = "mymachine.mydomain";
+
+      type = types.uniq (types.nullOr types.string);
+    };
+  };
+
+  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
+    environment.etc = [ { source = datadog-conf; target = "dd-agent/datadog.conf"; } ];
+
+    boot.systemd.services.dd-agent = {
+      description = "Datadog agent monitor";
+
+      path = [ pkgs.sysstat pkgs.procps ];
+
+      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+
+      serviceConfig.ExecStart = "${pkgs.dd-agent}/bin/dd-agent foreground";
+
+      restartTriggers = [ pkgs.dd-agent ];
+    };
+  };
+}