Alert on metrics, events + more
If you send it, Datadog can alert on it:
- Application and system metrics
- Up/down status checks
- Custom metrics via StatsD
- Discrete events
- Network checks
- Metrics from running processes
- Evaluations of multiple alert triggers

Alert on services or individual hosts
VMs and containers come and go. Monitor them at a higher level:

Thresholds, changes, outliers
Datadog can recognize any kind of trouble in your systems:
- Metrics crossing into unacceptable ranges
- Unexpected changes or trends
- Automated outlier detection
- Configurable “no data” alerts for missing data

Only get alerts that matter
Not every alert should wake you up at 3:00 A.M.:
- Tune alerts to recognize acceptable failure levels
- Exclude alerts from testing environments or subcritical components
- Fine-tune your alerts with flexible alerting logic
- Automatically mute alerts during planned downtime

Use your existing workflow
Datadog works with all the communication and collaboration tools you love:

Immediate context
Datadog includes full API access to capture what makes your infrastructure special
- Snapshots from the incident
- Links to dashboards with relevant metrics
- Next steps for investigation and resolution
