Manage Service Catalog entries efficiently with the Service Definition JSON Schema

The Datadog Service Catalog helps centralize knowledge about an organization's services, improving collaboration, service governance, and incident response. It automatically detects APM-instrumented services and writes their metadata to a service definition before adding them to the catalog. Users can also create their own service definitions in JSON or YAML format to manually register new services or update existing ones with contact information, on-call schedules, and other key metadata. The Service Definition JSON Schema enables IDEs to autocomplete entries as users work with their service definition files, automatically validate data, and POST service definitions to the Datadog Service Definition API. Additionally, the schema's extensions field allows users to store custom metadata in their service definitions for programmatic access.