Actionable Alerting | Datadog
Feature Overview
Datadog alerts use tags and machine learning to efficiently identify problems in your infrastructure, applications, and services. Every alert is specific, actionable, and contextual—even in large-scale and highly ephemeral environments—which helps minimize downtime and prevents alert fatigue. And with native SLO and SLA tracking, you can prioritize and address the issues that matter most to your business.
Monitor ephemeral systems without fatigue
- Use tags to create targeted alerts on sets of hosts, containers, or any other component of your applications or infrastructure, including serverless functions
- Automatically apply alerts to new hosts so you can scale up your environment without blind spots
- Combine multiple alerts with sophisticated composite monitors to minimize alert noise
Ensure optimal performance with machine learning-powered alerts
- Use Watchdog to automatically detect anomalies within your infrastructure, applications, and services
- Conduct root cause analysis faster by viewing intelligently grouped anomalies, metrics, and stack traces that are related to the surfaced issue
- Start receiving Watchdog alerts immediately, without any setup or configuration
Never lose sight of your SLOs
- Create, track, and report on critical SLOs and visualize them on dashboards using customizable widgets
- Set SLO targets and thresholds to see at a glance which SLAs may be at risk
- View rolling error budgets to better prioritize engineering efforts and deploy new code with confidence
Investigate alerts on the go with the Datadog mobile app
- View alerts and anomalous data patterns instantly on your mobile device with the Datadog Android and iOS apps
- Understand the severity of incidents and monitor the health of all your services with real-time dashboards
- Receive alerts anytime, anywhere through seamless mobile integrations with on-call notification services
Plug-and-play with your existing workflow
- Easily route notifications directly to communication tools like Slack, Hangouts Chat, and Microsoft Teams
- Automatically create and update custom JIRA tickets so bugs don’t fall through the cracks
- Send alerts to webhooks to enrich your existing workflows and trigger custom code
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Resources
EBOOK
How orderbird drove uptime from three nines to four nines](/content/ebook/orderbird-four-nines-uptime/index.html)
TESTIMONIAL
Track SLIs and SLOs](/content/videos/track-sli-slo/index.html)
TESTIMONIAL
Detecting anomalies with Watchdog (Datadog + Square)](/content/videos/dash-keynote-detecting-anomalies-with-watchdog/index.html)
BLOG
Monitoring services and setting SLAs with Datadog](/content/blog/set-and-monitor-slas/index.html)
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