Microsoft Teams

Overview

Integrate with Microsoft Teams to:

  • Be notified of Datadog alerts and events in Microsoft Teams.
  • Manage incidents from within Microsoft Teams.

Send monitor notifications to a Microsoft Teams channel

Setup

To integrate Datadog with a Microsoft Teams channel:

  1. Choose the ... button next to the channel name in the list of channels and then choose Connectors.

    Microsoft Teams step 1

  2. Search for Datadog and click Configure.

    Microsoft Teams step 2

  3. In the connector configuration modal, copy the webhook URL.

  4. In Datadog, navigate to Integrations > Microsoft Teams.

  5. On the Configuration tab, click Add Channel, give the channel a name, and paste the webhook URL.

  6. In the connector configuration modal, click Save.

Usage

From a Datadog monitor, send a notification to Microsoft Teams using the @-notification feature. Send the notification to the address @teams-<CHANNEL>, replacing <CHANNEL> with the name of your Microsoft Teams channel.

Datadog Incident Management in Microsoft Teams

Datadog Incident Management for Microsoft Teams is in public beta and only available on the US1 site.

Account setup

First, install the Datadog App in Microsoft Teams:

  1. Open Microsoft Teams.
  2. In the vertical toolbar, click Apps.
  3. Search for “Datadog” and click on the tile.
  4. Click Add to install the Datadog App.
Datadog install app tile in Microsoft Teams

Next, connect your Microsoft tenant to Datadog:

  1. In Datadog, navigate to the Microsoft Teams Integration Tile.
  2. Click Add Account, which will redirect you to Microsoft.
  3. Follow the prompts and click OK.

Some Datadog Incident Management features perform actions on your tenant, like creating a new team for every incident, and will need permission. To authorize Datadog to perform these actions you will need someone with the Global Admin role to complete the following steps:

  1. In Datadog, navigate to the Microsoft Teams Integration Tile.
  2. Click Authorize, which will redirect you to Microsoft.
  3. Follow the prompts and click OK.

User setup

To perform actions in Datadog from Microsoft Teams you will need to connect your Datadog and Microsoft Team accounts.

To connect your account from Microsoft Teams:

  1. Open Microsoft Teams.

  2. Start a chat with the Datadog bot by clicking on the ... button in the vertical toolbar and selecting Datadog.

  3. Type “accounts” and hit enter.

    Connect accounts from Microsoft Teams

  4. The Datadog bot will respond with instructions on how to connect your accounts. Click Connect Datadog Account.

  5. The Datadog bot will then send a message containing a link to connect your accounts. Click the link and follow the prompts.

  6. You will be redirected back to the Microsoft Teams Integration Tile.

  7. Create an application key by clicking Create in the prompt on the Microsoft Teams Integration Tile.

You can also connect your accounts from Datadog:

  1. In Datadog, navigate to the Microsoft Teams Integration Tile.
  2. Click Connect in the tenant listed.
  3. Follow the prompts and click OK.
  4. You will be redirected back to the Microsoft Teams Integration Tile.
  5. Create an application key by clicking Create in the above prompt.
Connect accounts from Datadog Microsoft Teams integration tile

Usage

To declare a new incident from Microsoft Teams:

  1. Start a conversation in any team.
  2. Type @Datadog or use the ... button to open the Messaging extensions menu and select the Datadog App.
  3. Select Create an Incident.
  4. Complete the form with your desired information.
  5. Click Create.

Anyone in your Microsoft Teams tenant can declare an incident, regardless of whether they have access to Datadog.

When a new incident is created, a corresponding team named incident-(unique number ID) is created.

To update an incident, follow a similar process as creation:

  1. Start a conversation while in an incident team.
  2. Type @Datadog or use the ... button to open the Messaging extensions menu and select the Datadog App.
  3. Select Update Incident.
  4. Complete the form with your desired information.
  5. Click Update.

List all open (active and stable) incidents with:

@Datadog list incidents

Use the “More actions” menu on any message inside of an incident team on the far right to send that message to the incident Timeline.

Incident updates channel

Using an incident updates channel provides your stakeholders with organization-wide visibility into the status of all incidents directly from Microsoft Teams. Select which team and channel in your account to post these updates to, and the channel receives the following posts:

  • Newly declared incidents.
  • Changes to severity, status transition, and incident commander.
  • Links to the incident’s overview page in App.
  • Link to join the dedicated incident team.

Once the Microsoft Teams App has been installed, you can navigate to the Incident Settings page. From this, you can scroll down to the Incident Updates Channel section and begin the set-up flow.

How to set up an incident channel:

  1. Navigate to Incidents Settings.
  2. Locate the Incident Updates Channel section of the Microsoft Teams integration.
  3. Select the correct tenant, team, and channel for your incident updates.
Microsoft Teams Incident Update Channel Settings.

Data collected

Metrics

The Microsoft Teams integration does not provide any metrics.

Events

The Microsoft Teams integration does not include any events.

Service checks

The Microsoft Teams integration does not include any service checks.

Troubleshooting

Using SSO

Use the following steps to set new channel connectors:

  1. Login to Datadog, then complete setup steps 1 and 2.

  2. After setup step 3 redirects you to Datadog from the MS Teams page, open a new tab and log into Datadog with your SSO. Then perform setup step 4 separately.

Need help? Contact Datadog support.