---
title: Squadcast
description: Get notified of your Datadog alerts & take actions using Squadcast.
breadcrumbs: Docs > Integrations > Squadcast
---

# Squadcast
Supported OS Integration version1.0.0
## Overview{% #overview %}

Use the Datadog-Squadcast integration to send Datadog alerts or incidents to Squadcast and seamlessly take actions on them within Squadcast.

Connect Squadcast to Datadog in order to:

- Trigger, route, and resolve alerts or incidents from Datadog
- Tackle alerts or incidents and set up escalation policies as they occur
- Define on-call schedules and set up customizable reminders of who is on-call

## Setup{% #setup %}

**Note**: Only Squadcast users with the correct team-level privileges can configure services in Squadcast. At least one escalation policy must be configured before a service can be added.

### Squadcast{% #squadcast %}

Follow these steps in Squadcast:

1. Choose the **Team** from the team-picker on the top.

1. Open the **Services** page from the primary navigation bar on the left.

1. Choose an existing service, or create a new service by clicking on **Add Service**.

1. Click on **Alert Sources** and select **Datadog** from the drop-down.

1. Copy the **Datadog Webhook URL** shown and click **Done**.

### Datadog{% #datadog %}

Follow these steps in Datadog:

1. Open the **Integrations** page from the sidebar.

1. Use the search bar to search for "webhooks".

1. Once the **Webhooks** tile appears, hover and click on **Install**.

1. Navigate to the **Configuration** tab and scroll to the bottom of the page.

1. (a) Give the Webhook a name in the **Name** field.

(b) Paste the **Datadog Webhook URL** provided by Squadcast in the **URL** field.

(c) Copy-paste the following JSON in the text box under the **Payload** section.



```json
    {
       "alertId": "$ALERT_ID",
       "eventMessage": "$TEXT_ONLY_MSG",
       "title": "$EVENT_TITLE",
       "url": "$LINK",
       "alertTransition": "$ALERT_TRANSITION",
       "hostname": "$HOSTNAME",
       "orgName":"$ORG_NAME",
       "priority":"$PRIORITY",
       "snapshot": "$SNAPSHOT",
       "alertQuery": "$ALERT_QUERY",
       "alertScope": "$ALERT_SCOPE",
       "alertStatus": "$ALERT_STATUS",
       "eventType": "$EVENT_TYPE",
       "event_id": "$ID",
       "alert_metric": "$ALERT_METRIC",
       "alert_priority": "$ALERT_PRIORITY",
       "alert_title": "$ALERT_TITLE",
       "alert_type" : "$ALERT_TYPE",
       "event_msg" : "$EVENT_MSG",
       "incident_pub_id" : "$INCIDENT_PUBLIC_ID",
       "incident_title" : "$INCIDENT_TITLE",
       "incident_url" : "$INCIDENT_URL",
       "incident_msg" : "$INCIDENT_MSG",
       "security_rule_id" : "$SECURITY_RULE_ID",
       "security_rule_name" : "$SECURITY_RULE_NAME",
       "security_signal_severity" : "$SECURITY_SIGNAL_SEVERITY",
       "security_signal_title" : "$SECURITY_SIGNAL_TITLE",
       "security_signal_msg" : "$SECURITY_SIGNAL_MSG",
       "security_rule_query" : "$SECURITY_RULE_QUERY",
       "security_rule_type" : "$SECURITY_RULE_TYPE",
       "tags" : "$TAGS"
   }
```

Click on **Save** to complete the service integration.

See the [Squadcast documentation](https://support.squadcast.com/docs/datadog) for more details.

**Note**: Once the Webhook for Squadcast is configured, select the same as a channel under **Notify your team** in the Datadog monitor's configuration.

## Data Collected{% #data-collected %}

### Metrics{% #metrics %}

Squadcast integration does not include any metrics.

### Events{% #events %}

Your Squadcast triggered and resolved events display in your Squadcast platform dashboard.

### Service Checks{% #service-checks %}

Squadcast integration does not include any service checks.

## Troubleshooting{% #troubleshooting %}

Need help? Contact [Datadog Support](https://docs.datadoghq.com/help/).