Services Checks allow you to characterize the status of a service in order to monitor it within Datadog. All status checks must have one of the following status codes:
| Status Code | Description |
|---|---|
0 | OK |
1 | Warning |
2 | Critical |
3 | Unknown |
Find below how to submit a Service Check to Datadog:
Service checks can be visualized and used in 3 Datadog sections:
Click on the Monitors tab, and then on Check Summary to see the Check Summary page.
This is a list of all your checks and their statuses, reporting across your infrastructure in the past day. Select a check to get insights on the number of distinct checks for each of its associated tags.
You can visualize service checks with a Check status widget in a screenboard:
After clicking on the Check status widget icon, the following pop-up appears:
In this form, you can:
Even if you can’t graph a custom check over time as you would for metrics, you can still monitor it. Go to monitor tab > new monitor, then select the custom check section:
Configure your custom check monitor:
In this form, you can:
Service check monitors for out-of-the-box Datadog integrations can be set in the monitor tab > Integration > Integration status tab on the left. For instance, with the HAProxy integration:
Learn how to write an integration with the integration developer documentation.
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