Monitors search

GET https://api.ap1.datadoghq.com/api/v1/monitor/searchhttps://api.ap2.datadoghq.com/api/v1/monitor/searchhttps://api.datadoghq.eu/api/v1/monitor/searchhttps://api.ddog-gov.com/api/v1/monitor/searchhttps://api.us2.ddog-gov.com/api/v1/monitor/searchhttps://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/monitor/searchhttps://api.us3.datadoghq.com/api/v1/monitor/searchhttps://api.us5.datadoghq.com/api/v1/monitor/search

Overview

Search and filter your monitors details. This endpoint requires the monitors_read permission.

OAuth apps require the monitors_read authorization scope to access this endpoint.

Arguments

Query Strings

Name

Type

Description

query

string

After entering a search query in your Manage Monitor page use the query parameter value in the URL of the page as value for this parameter. Consult the dedicated manage monitor documentation page to learn more.

The query can contain any number of space-separated monitor attributes, for instance query="type:metric status:alert".

page

integer

Page to start paginating from.

per_page

integer

Number of monitors to return per page.

sort

string

String for sort order, composed of field and sort order separate by a comma, for example name,asc. Supported sort directions: asc, desc. Supported fields:

  • name
  • status
  • tags

Response

OK

The response from a monitor search.

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Field

Type

Description

counts

object

The counts of monitors per different criteria.

muted

[object]

Search facets.

count

int64

The number of found monitors with the listed value.

name

The facet value.

status

[object]

Search facets.

count

int64

The number of found monitors with the listed value.

name

The facet value.

tag

[object]

Search facets.

count

int64

The number of found monitors with the listed value.

name

The facet value.

type

[object]

Search facets.

count

int64

The number of found monitors with the listed value.

name

The facet value.

metadata

object

Metadata about the response.

page

int64

The page to start paginating from.

page_count

int64

The number of pages.

per_page

int64

The number of monitors to return per page.

total_count

int64

The total number of monitors.

monitors

[object]

The list of found monitors.

classification

string

Classification of the monitor.

creator

object

Object describing the creator of the shared element.

email

string

Email of the creator.

handle

string

Handle of the creator.

name

string

Name of the creator.

id

int64

ID of the monitor.

last_triggered_ts

int64

Latest timestamp the monitor triggered.

metrics

[string]

Metrics used by the monitor.

name

string

The monitor name.

notifications

[object]

The notification triggered by the monitor.

handle

string

The email address that received the notification.

name

string

The username receiving the notification

org_id

int64

The ID of the organization.

quality_issues

[string]

Quality issues detected with the monitor.

query

string

The monitor query.

scopes

[string]

The scope(s) to which the downtime applies, for example host:app2. Provide multiple scopes as a comma-separated list, for example env:dev,env:prod. The resulting downtime applies to sources that matches ALL provided scopes (that is env:dev AND env:prod), NOT any of them.

status

enum

The different states your monitor can be in. Allowed enum values: Alert,Ignored,No Data,OK,Skipped,Unknown,Warn

tags

[string]

Tags associated with the monitor.

type

enum

The type of the monitor. For more information about type, see the monitor options docs. Allowed enum values: composite,event alert,log alert,metric alert,process alert,query alert,rum alert,service check,synthetics alert,trace-analytics alert

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{
  "counts": {
    "muted": [
      {
        "count": 3,
        "name": false
      },
      {
        "count": 3,
        "name": true
      }
    ],
    "status": [
      {
        "count": 4,
        "name": "No Data"
      },
      {
        "count": 2,
        "name": "OK"
      }
    ],
    "tag": [
      {
        "count": 6,
        "name": "service:cassandra"
      }
    ],
    "type": [
      {
        "count": 6,
        "name": "metric"
      }
    ]
  },
  "metadata": {
    "page": 0,
    "page_count": 6,
    "per_page": 30,
    "total_count": 6
  },
  "monitors": [
    {
      "classification": "metric",
      "creator": {
        "handle": "john@datadoghq.com",
        "name": "John Doe"
      },
      "id": 2699850,
      "last_triggered_ts": null,
      "metrics": [
        "system.cpu.user"
      ],
      "name": "Cassandra CPU is high on {{host.name}} in {{availability-zone.name}}",
      "notifications": [
        {
          "handle": "jane@datadoghq.com",
          "name": "Jane Doe"
        }
      ],
      "org_id": 1234,
      "quality_issues": [
        "broken_at_handle",
        "noisy_monitor"
      ],
      "scopes": [
        "!availability-zone:us-east-1c",
        "name:cassandra"
      ],
      "status": "No Data",
      "tags": [
        "service:cassandra"
      ],
      "type": "query alert"
    }
  ]
}

Bad Request

Error response object.

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Field

Type

Description

errors [required]

[string]

Array of errors returned by the API.

{
  "errors": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}

Forbidden

Error response object.

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Field

Type

Description

errors [required]

[string]

Array of errors returned by the API.

{
  "errors": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}

Too many requests

Error response object.

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Field

Type

Description

errors [required]

[string]

Array of errors returned by the API.

{
  "errors": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}

Code Example

                  # Curl command
curl -X GET "https://api.ap1.datadoghq.com"https://api.ap2.datadoghq.com"https://api.datadoghq.eu"https://api.ddog-gov.com"https://api.us2.ddog-gov.com"https://api.datadoghq.com"https://api.us3.datadoghq.com"https://api.us5.datadoghq.com/api/v1/monitor/search" \ -H "Accept: application/json" \ -H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}" \ -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${DD_APP_KEY}"
"""
Monitors search returns "OK" response
"""

from datadog_api_client import ApiClient, Configuration
from datadog_api_client.v1.api.monitors_api import MonitorsApi

configuration = Configuration()
with ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:
    api_instance = MonitorsApi(api_client)
    response = api_instance.search_monitors()

    print(response)

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.py and run following commands:

    
DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comus5.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euap1.datadoghq.comap2.datadoghq.comddog-gov.comus2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<DD_APP_KEY>" python3 "example.py"
# Monitors search returns "OK" response

require "datadog_api_client"
api_instance = DatadogAPIClient::V1::MonitorsAPI.new
p api_instance.search_monitors()

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.rb and run following commands:

    
DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comus5.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euap1.datadoghq.comap2.datadoghq.comddog-gov.comus2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<DD_APP_KEY>" rb "example.rb"
require 'dogapi'

api_key = '<DATADOG_API_KEY>'
app_key = '<DATADOG_APPLICATION_KEY>'

dog = Dogapi::Client.new(api_key, app_key)

# Search monitors
dog.search_monitors

# Examples of possible query parameters:
# dog.search_monitors(query="id:7100311")
# dog.search_monitors(query="title:foo metric:system.core.idle status:Alert")

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.rb and run following commands:

    
DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comus5.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euap1.datadoghq.comap2.datadoghq.comddog-gov.comus2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<DD_APP_KEY>" rb "example.rb"
// Monitors search returns "OK" response

package main

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-api-client-go/v2/api/datadog"
	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-api-client-go/v2/api/datadogV1"
)

func main() {
	ctx := datadog.NewDefaultContext(context.Background())
	configuration := datadog.NewConfiguration()
	apiClient := datadog.NewAPIClient(configuration)
	api := datadogV1.NewMonitorsApi(apiClient)
	resp, r, err := api.SearchMonitors(ctx, *datadogV1.NewSearchMonitorsOptionalParameters())

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error when calling `MonitorsApi.SearchMonitors`: %v\n", err)
		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Full HTTP response: %v\n", r)
	}

	responseContent, _ := json.MarshalIndent(resp, "", "  ")
	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "Response from `MonitorsApi.SearchMonitors`:\n%s\n", responseContent)
}

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to main.go and run following commands:

    
DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comus5.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euap1.datadoghq.comap2.datadoghq.comddog-gov.comus2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<DD_APP_KEY>" go run "main.go"
// Monitors search returns "OK" response

import com.datadog.api.client.ApiClient;
import com.datadog.api.client.ApiException;
import com.datadog.api.client.v1.api.MonitorsApi;
import com.datadog.api.client.v1.model.MonitorSearchResponse;

public class Example {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ApiClient defaultClient = ApiClient.getDefaultApiClient();
    MonitorsApi apiInstance = new MonitorsApi(defaultClient);

    try {
      MonitorSearchResponse result = apiInstance.searchMonitors();
      System.out.println(result);
    } catch (ApiException e) {
      System.err.println("Exception when calling MonitorsApi#searchMonitors");
      System.err.println("Status code: " + e.getCode());
      System.err.println("Reason: " + e.getResponseBody());
      System.err.println("Response headers: " + e.getResponseHeaders());
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to Example.java and run following commands:

    
DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comus5.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euap1.datadoghq.comap2.datadoghq.comddog-gov.comus2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<DD_APP_KEY>" java "Example.java"
from datadog import initialize, api

options = {
	'api_key': '<DATADOG_API_KEY>',
	'app_key': '<DATADOG_APPLICATION_KEY>'
}

initialize(**options)

# Search monitors
api.Monitor.search()

# Examples of possible query parameters:
# api.Monitor.search(query="id:7100311")
# api.Monitor.search(query="title:foo metric:system.core.idle status:Alert")

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.py and run following commands:

    
DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comus5.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euap1.datadoghq.comap2.datadoghq.comddog-gov.comus2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<DD_APP_KEY>" python "example.py"
// Monitors search returns "OK" response
use datadog_api_client::datadog;
use datadog_api_client::datadogV1::api_monitors::MonitorsAPI;
use datadog_api_client::datadogV1::api_monitors::SearchMonitorsOptionalParams;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let configuration = datadog::Configuration::new();
    let api = MonitorsAPI::with_config(configuration);
    let resp = api
        .search_monitors(SearchMonitorsOptionalParams::default())
        .await;
    if let Ok(value) = resp {
        println!("{:#?}", value);
    } else {
        println!("{:#?}", resp.unwrap_err());
    }
}

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to src/main.rs and run following commands:

    
DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comus5.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euap1.datadoghq.comap2.datadoghq.comddog-gov.comus2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<DD_APP_KEY>" cargo run
/**
 * Monitors search returns "OK" response
 */

import { client, v1 } from "@datadog/datadog-api-client";

const configuration = client.createConfiguration();
const apiInstance = new v1.MonitorsApi(configuration);

apiInstance
  .searchMonitors()
  .then((data: v1.MonitorSearchResponse) => {
    console.log(
      "API called successfully. Returned data: " + JSON.stringify(data)
    );
  })
  .catch((error: any) => console.error(error));

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.ts and run following commands:

    
DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comus5.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euap1.datadoghq.comap2.datadoghq.comddog-gov.comus2.ddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<DD_API_KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<DD_APP_KEY>" tsc "example.ts"