Edit, clone, delete, mute, and resolve monitors all in one place. Use advanced facet search to focus on high-priority alerts. Navigate monitor details and alerts over time from the monitor status page.
View Monitors
To search monitors, construct a query using the facet panel on the left or the search bar at the top.
You can search by strings contained in the title or message, or distinguish between title and message during search.
For example, when searching with “cpu”, it will return results if “cpu” appears in either title or message. If you search with “title:cpu”, it will search only within titles. “message:cpu” searches within messages.
Logical operators (AND, OR, NOT), parentheses, and * can be used in the search query.
Note that if the search string contains reserved characters such as -, (, ), ", ~, *, :, ., and space, it must be enclosed in quotation marks.
To search for the string "cpu-usage", enter it as "cpu-usage".
Click the gear icon at the top right of the list to toggle additional columns that can be shown or hidden in the list using on/off toggles.
Manage Monitors
Select checkboxes in the list to manage the selected monitors in bulk.
OPTION | DESCRIPTION |
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Mute |
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Unmute | Unmute the selected monitors if they are muted |
Resolve | Clear alerts if the selected monitor is currently in an alert state |
Delete | Delete the selected monitors |
Edit Tag | Edit tags for the selected monitors |
When you hover over a monitor in the list, icons for Edit, Clone, Mute, and Delete appear on the right side of the list. Use these icons to manage individual monitors.
Clicking a monitor in the list opens its detail page.
Monitor Detail Page
The top of the monitor detail screen shows the monitor’s current status, time, and title.
Click the Mute (or Unmute) button to mute or unmute the monitor.
If an alert has occurred, click the Resolve button to clear the alert.
Click Declare Incident to add an incident. (For incidents, see : https://docs.datadoghq.com/getting_started/incident_management/#overview )
Click the gear icon to access Edit, Clone, Export (JSON), and Delete functions.
Properties
PROPERTY | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|
Status | Displays the current status: Alert, Warn, No Data, or OK |
Type | Indicates the monitor type (https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/create/types/ ) |
ID | ID used when accessing the monitor via API |
Date created | The date the monitor was created |
Author | The person who created the monitor |
Tags | Tags associated with the monitor. Click the pencil icon to edit tags |
Query | Shows the query used in the monitor (https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/querying/ ) |
Message | The message that will be propagated when an alert is triggered |
Status & History
The Status and History section shows query and status changes over time. Use the search box, status, and time selectors above the section to filter information.
The Group Status graph shows monitor status over time, categorized by group.
Click Open in Notebook next to the status graph to investigate metric evolution further. This will generate a Notebook containing a formatted graph of the monitor query. (https://docs.datadoghq.com/notebooks/ )
Note: If “None” or “no groups found” is displayed, one of the following may apply:
The monitor was recently created and has not yet been evaluated
The monitor’s query was recently changed
The monitor’s timeframe is too short for metrics that update infrequently
The hostname included in the previous query has changed (hostname changes expire in the UI within 2 hours)
The History graph aligns collected data with the Status graph for comparison.
The Evaluation graph shows the exact behavior of the query within the timeline brackets in the History graph. The Group Status graph includes boxes that correspond to evaluation time steps. Dragging this box along the timeline shows the evaluation results for that time.
Events generated by the monitor (such as Alert, Warning, Recoveries, etc.) appear in this section based on the time selector above the Status & History section.
These events also appear in the Event Stream.