Datadog Integration

Configure Datadog integration for Harness AI SRE to receive monitoring and APM alerts.

Configure Datadog integration to receive monitoring and APM alerts in Harness AI SRE.

Overview

Datadog provides:

• Alert ingestion: Automated alert forwarding from monitors

• Metric correlation: Link alerts to related metrics

• Service mapping: Automatic service discovery

• Environment detection: Production vs staging classification

• APM integration: Application performance monitoring

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Use this template

In Harness AI SRE

Create the webhook integration in Harness AI SRE:

1. Navigate to Integrations in the main menu

2. Click New Integration

3. Select Datadog from the template options

4. Enter a name and generate an ID

5. Copy the generated webhook URL

The template automatically configures field mapping to match Datadog alert fields to Harness alert properties.

In Datadog

Configure Datadog monitors to send webhooks to your Harness webhook URL. Go to the Datadog webhook setup guide to complete the step-by-step instructions.

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Example alert payload

{
  "body": "Monitor Alert: System CPU > 95%",
  "last_updated": "1614728748000",
  "event_type": "monitor_alert",
  "title": "High CPU Usage",
  "date": "1614728748",
  "org": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "name": "MyOrg"
  },
  "id": "event-123",
  "alert_id": "12345",
  "alert_metric": "system.cpu.user",
  "alert_priority": "P1",
  "alert_transition": "Triggered",
  "alert_status": "Alert",
  "alert_title": "High CPU Usage",
  "alert_type": "metric_alert",
  "host_name": "web-server-01",
  "priority": "normal",
  "tags": ["env:production", "service:web"],
  "alert_scope": ["host:web-server-01"]
}

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Configure Datadog to send webhooks

After creating a webhook from this template in Harness, configure Datadog to send alerts to your webhook URL.

Go to the Datadog webhook setup guide to complete detailed step-by-step instructions, including:

• Create webhook integrations in Datadog

• Configure monitor notifications

• Customize payload fields

• Test the integration

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Next steps

• Route alerts: Route Datadog alerts to the right destinations.

• Use CEL in webhooks: Add custom filtering logic.

• Webhook templates overview: View other templates.