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Overview

Monitor clutter builds up over time, resulting in noise, duplicated alerts, and increased operational friction. This guide outlines a clear approach to identifying and cleaning up cluttered monitors, with use cases to help you streamline your alerting workflows.

It also provides best practices to help maintain a clean monitoring environment, making it easier to scale and govern your monitoring strategy as your systems grow.

Prerequisites

You must have the Monitors Write permissions.

Use cases

This guide covers several key use cases for cleaning up monitor clutter:

Long-term muted monitors: Monitors that have been muted for extended periods—weeks or even months.
Monitors stuck in ALERT state: Monitors that have remained in the “Alert” state for an unusually long time without being acknowledged or resolved.
Duplicate monitors: Multiple monitors triggering on the same condition, metric, or service—often due to team silos or lack of coordination.
Flappy and noisy monitors: Monitors that trigger and resolve frequently (i.e., “flap”) or produce high volumes of low-value alerts.
Misconfigured Monitors: Monitors with broken links to dashboards, missing evaluation delays, missing or incorrect alert constituents, or outdated tags and naming conventions.

Muted for a long period of time

Monitors serve as an early warning system for failures, security threats, and performance issues. However, having monitors muted for a long period of time defeats that purpose, long-term muting often signals that a monitor is obsolete, irrelevant, or too noisy to be useful. These should be reviewed and either re-enabled with proper tuning or retired to reduce clutter and eliminate stale monitors from your alerting environment.

Clean up monitors that are not providing value and replace long-term mutes with time-bound schedules:

1. Inspect the monitors

Audit monitors that have been muted for a long period of time to understand which are actually needed or useful. Some monitors might be muted for a good reason and you want to avoid deleting them.

To see those monitors, navigate to the Monitor Quality page and find the list for monitors that have been muted for more than 60 days. You can also find muted monitors on the Monitors List with the query muted_elapsed:<number_of_days>d.

After you have your list, you can either take action on each monitor from the Monitor Quality page or do a bulk deletion of monitors with steps 2 and 3.

2. Get the monitor ID list

Get a list of your monitor IDs to programmatically automate the changes. Start with the monitors that have been muted for over 60 days.

The following CURL command fetches that information:

curl -s -X GET "/api/v1/monitor/search" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: ${API_KEY}" \
  -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${APP_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq -r '
  .monitors[]
  | select(.quality_issues != null and (.quality_issues | index("muted_duration_over_sixty_days")))
  | [.id, .name, (.quality_issues | join(";"))]
  | @csv' > monitors_muted.csv

This gives you the details of your monitors in a CSV file for readability. You can refine the query to your specific use case.

3. Delete the monitors

With your list of monitors that have been muted for over 60 days (from Step 2), you can delete them with the following script. Before you run the script, put the monitor ID column first in the table.

input_file="monitors_muted.csv"
tail -n +2 "$input_file" | awk -F',' '{print $1}' | while read -r monitor_id; do
    echo "Deleting monitor ID: $monitor_id"

    curl -X DELETE "/api/v1/monitor/${monitor_id}" \
        -H "Accept: application/json" \
        -H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}" \
        -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${DD_APP_KEY}"
    echo "Deleted monitor: $monitor_id"
done

In an ALERT state for a long period of time

Persistent alerts suggest one of two problems: either the issue is not actionable, or the monitor threshold is misconfigured. Both cases erode trust in alerts and contribute to alert fatigue. These monitors should be reviewed and edited, or removed.

Here is how to get the list of monitors which have been in ALERT state for more than 60 days:

curl -s -X GET "/api/v1/monitor/search" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: ${API_KEY}" \
  -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${APP_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq -r '
  .monitors[]
  | select(.quality_issues != null and (.quality_issues | index("alerted_too_long")))
  | [.id, .name, (.quality_issues | join(";"))]
  | @csv' > monitors_alerted_too_long.csv

To delete, use the same process in the Delete Monitors command. Replace the input_file with monitors_alerted_too_long.csv.

Duplicate monitors

Creating separate monitors that differ only by a tag, can lead to unnecessary duplication. For example, monitoring CPU usage with one monitor for prod and another for staging increases your monitor count.

Redundant monitors create unnecessary noise and confusion. In many cases, these can be consolidated into a single multi-alert monitor with proper scoping and tagging, reducing duplication and making alerts more manageable.

If you need to send different notifications depending on the tag value that triggered the alert, use monitor variables to dynamically customize the message based on the tag that breached the threshold.

Flappy and noisy monitors

Noisy monitors desensitize teams to real issues. Flapping (when a monitor frequently switches between alert and recovery states) often indicates unstable thresholds, missing evaluation delays, or underlying system volatility.

To reduce noise, review the monitor’s evaluation aggregation and the threshold configuration. Adjust the settings to stabilize alert behavior, or delete the monitor if it no longer provides value.

Here is how to get a list of monitors that are generating a high volume of alerts:

curl -s -X GET "/api/v1/monitor/search" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: ${API_KEY}" \
  -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${APP_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq -r '
  .monitors[]
  | select(.quality_issues != null and (.quality_issues | index("noisy_monitor")))
  | [.id, .name, (.quality_issues | join(";"))]
  | @csv' > noisy_monitors.csv

To delete, use the same process in the Delete Monitors command. Replace the input_file with noisy_monitors.csv.

Misconfigured monitors

Misconfigured monitors are active monitors that may have a proper use, but are inefficient because you won’t be notified. These misconfigurations undermine the monitor’s reliability and make debugging or triaging harder. Cleaning these up ensures your alerts are accurate, actionable, and integrated into your observability workflows.

Broken handle

Use the Monitor Quality page to visualize which monitors have a broken handle. Notifications from these monitors can’t reach its destination.

Datadog recommends reviewing the monitors’ recipients to ensure proper delivery, or deleting the monitor.

Here is how to get the list of monitors that have misconfigured handles:

curl -s -X GET "/api/v1/monitor/search" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: ${API_KEY}" \
  -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${APP_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq -r '
  .monitors[]
  | select(.quality_issues != null and (.quality_issues | index("broken_at_handle")))
  | [.id, .name, (.quality_issues | join(";"))]
  | @csv' > monitors_broken_handle.csv

To delete, use the same process in the Delete Monitors command. Replace the input_file with monitors_broken_handle.csv.

Missing a delay

This issue mainly impacts monitors based on AWS metrics. Because Datadog retrieves AWS metrics through the API, there’s often a built-in delay before the data becomes available. If you don’t account for this, monitors can trigger false positives due to incomplete or delayed data.

You can find affected monitors in the Monitor Quality page, where monitors missing an evaluation delay are flagged.

Datadog recommends adding a delay to all monitors that use AWS metrics. A delay of 300 seconds (5 minutes) is typically sufficient to account for data ingestion latency.

Here is how to get the list of monitors that are missing a delay:

curl -s -X GET "/api/v1/monitor/search" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: ${API_KEY}" \
  -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${APP_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq -r '
  .monitors[]
  | select(.quality_issues != null and (.quality_issues | index("crawler_metric_missing_eval_delay")))
  | [.id, .name, (.quality_issues | join(";"))]
  | @csv' > monitors_missing_delay.csv

For more information, see the AWS Troubleshooting guide.

Missing constituent

Composite monitors evaluate their state based on the logical combination of two or more monitors (called constituents). If any of those constituent monitors are deleted or become unavailable, the composite monitor becomes invalid or unreliable.

A missing constituent typically means that at least one of the original input monitors has been removed after the composite monitor was created. This causes the composite to be incomplete and potentially misleading in alerting behavior.

Datadog recommends reviewing the composite monitors to either replace or restore missing constituents, or delete the composite monitor. You can find the list of composite monitors with missing constituents on the Monitor Quality page.

To programmatically get the list of monitors that are missing constituents:

curl -s -X GET "/api/v1/monitor/search" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: ${API_KEY}" \
  -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${APP_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq -r '
  .monitors[]
  | select(.quality_issues != null and (.quality_issues | index("composite_has_deleted_constituents")))
  | [.id, .name, (.quality_issues | join(";"))]
  | @csv' > monitors_missing_constituent.csv

To delete, use the same process in the Delete Monitors command. Replace the input_file with monitors_missing_constituent.csv.

For more information, see Composite Monitor.

Best Practices to avoid Monitor Cluttering

Best Practice	Description	Implementation
Eliminate redundancy	Avoid creating multiple monitors that track the same signal with slightly different scopes (such as by region, team, or environment).	Use group-by monitors with tags, which are easier to manage and scale.
Set clear ownership	Every monitor should have a clear owner to route alerts to the right responders and avoid confusion.	Use `team:` tags and notification handles (`@slack-xyz`, `@pagerduty-twilio`). Use the Creator filter on the Monitors List to audit the most frequent monitor creators.
Review noisy or dormant monitors	Monitors that alert too often or never alert at all can cause fatigue or signal a misconfiguration.	Use the Monitor Quality page to identify and clean up noisy, broken, or outdated monitors.
Leverage monitor templates	For common patterns (such as RED metrics or API latency), use templates to reduce duplication and ensure standardization.	Use reusable templates to reduce duplication and ensure standardization across teams.
Establish a Tagging Policy	Consistent and meaningful tags allow you to easily filter, group, and route monitors.	Use consistent tags (such as `service:`, `env:`, `team:`) and establish a Tagging Policy. This enables scoped dashboards, alerts, and compliance tracking.
Monitor Quality Dashboard	Visualize trends in monitor hygiene across teams, services, and environments to proactively identify gaps and track improvements.	Set up a Monitor Quality dashboard to track improvements over time and prioritize cleanup efforts at scale.

Template Monitor Quality dashboard

To help you get started, import the following JSON dashboard definition directly into your Datadog account.

In the app, navigate to Dashboards and click New Dashboard.
At the top of the page, click Configure and select Import dashboard JSON….
Copy and paste the following JSON to build out a Monitor Quality dashboard:

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