Create a Monitor
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Create a Monitor
with Datadog · Observability Management
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Validate, create, and read back a Datadog monitor.
- Validate the monitor configuration without creating it to surface any query or option errors before persisting the monitor.
- Create the monitor with the validated configuration. Datadog returns the full monitor including its newly assigned numeric ID.
- Read the created monitor back by its ID to confirm the query, message, and thresholds were stored as intended.
What you'll need to have ready
- type: The monitor type (e.g. metric alert, query alert, service check).
- query: The monitor query expression (e.g. avg:system.cpu.user{*} > 95).
- name: A descriptive name for the monitor.
- message: The notification message body sent when the monitor triggers.
- tags: List of tags to associate with the monitor.
- priority: The monitor priority level from 1 (highest) to 5 (lowest).
- critical: The threshold value that triggers a CRITICAL alert.
- warning: The threshold value that triggers a WARNING alert.
For your developer
Arazzo workflow datadog:create-monitor, 3 operations: validateMonitor → createMonitor → getMonitor. Specs on APIs.io.