To create a monitor in Datadog, click the Monitors > New Monitor menu or click the New Monitor button at the top of the Manage Monitors screen.
Type | Description |
|---|---|
Host | Checks the integration status between Datadog and the Host. |
Metric | Compares the metric value with a threshold. |
Anomaly | Detects abnormal behavior in metrics based on historical data. |
Audit Logs | Alerts when a specified type of audit log exceeds a custom threshold within a defined period. |
Outlier | Alerts if an entity in a specified group exhibits abnormal behavior. |
Forecast | Alerts when a metric is expected to exceed a threshold. |
Integration | Monitors metric values or statuses from a specific integration. |
Live Process | Checks if a specific process is running on a host. |
Process Check | Checks the status created by the process.up service. |
Network | Checks the status of TCP/HTTP endpoints. |
Custom Check | Monitors the status of a custom check. |
Event | Monitors events collected by Datadog. |
Logs | Monitors logs collected by Datadog. |
APM | Compares APM metrics against user-defined thresholds. |
Real User Monitoring | Monitors real user data collected by Datadog. |
Watchdog | Receives alerts when Watchdog detects abnormal behavior. |
Composite | Generates alerts based on expressions combining multiple monitors. |
CI Pipelines | Monitors CI pipeline data collected by Datadog. |
Import Monitor from JSON | You can export an existing monitor as JSON and import it using the downloaded JSON file. |
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