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Datadog Notifications

Using the Datadog Events API, you can send Manako incident events to Datadog and visualize them in dashboards and monitors.

Prerequisites: Obtaining a Datadog API Key

Section titled “Prerequisites: Obtaining a Datadog API Key”
  1. Log in to Datadog

    Log in to Datadog.

  2. Create an API Key

    Go to Organization Settings > API Keys, click “New Key”, enter a key name (e.g., “Manako”), and create it.

  3. Copy the API Key

    Copy the 32-character hex string.

  4. Confirm your site

    Check your region:

    RegionSite
    US1 (default)datadoghq.com
    EUdatadoghq.eu
    US3us3.datadoghq.com
    US5us5.datadoghq.com
    AP1ap1.datadoghq.com
  1. Open the “Notification Channels” menu in the dashboard
  2. Click “Add Channel” and select Datadog as the Type
  3. Enter the API Key and site
  4. Enter a channel name and click “Add Channel”
Manako EventDatadog alert_typeDescription
Incident CreatederrorMonitor down detected
Incident Created (warning)warningWarning-level incident
Incident RecoveredsuccessMonitor recovery
Web Change DetectedinfoWeb page change detected

Each event is tagged with team_id, incident_id, and monitor_id. You can use these tags to filter in Datadog dashboards and monitors.