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Datadog Integration Webhook Template

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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

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.

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"]
}

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

Next steps​