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title: Monitor Guides
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  Guides covering monitor best practices, configuration, troubleshooting, and
  advanced use cases for Datadog monitoring.
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# Monitor Guides

- [Monitor Best Practices](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/monitor_best_practices.md)
- [How to set up RBAC for monitors](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/how-to-set-up-rbac-for-monitors.md)
- [Monitor aggregators](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/monitor_aggregators.md)
- [Monitor History and Evaluation Graph](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/history_and_evaluation_graphs.md)
- [Monitor settings changes not taking effect](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/why-did-my-monitor-settings-change-not-take-effect.md)
- [Recovery thresholds](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/recovery-thresholds.md)
- [Alert aggregation](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/alert_aggregation.md)
- [Notification Message Best Practices](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/notification-message-best-practices.md)

- [Create cluster alerts for metric monitor](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/create-cluster-alert.md)
- [Create monitor dependencies](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/create-monitor-dependencies.md)
- [How to create monitors in synthetic tests](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/synthetic_monitoring.md)
- [Reduce alert flapping](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/reduce-alert-flapping.md)
- [Clean up monitor clutter](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/clean_up_monitor_clutter.md)
- [Troubleshooting monitor alerts](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/troubleshooting-monitor-alerts.md)
- [Troubleshooting No Data in monitors](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/troubleshooting-no-data.md)

- [Best practices for Live Process Monitoring](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/best-practices-for-live-process-monitoring.md)
- [How to monitor non-static thresholds](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/non_static_thresholds.md)
- [Anomaly monitors](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/anomaly-monitor.md)
- [Monitoring Sparse Metrics](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/monitoring-sparse-metrics.md)
- [Monitor arithmetic and sparse metrics](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/monitor-arithmetic-and-sparse-metrics.md)
- [Monitoring Available Disk Space](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/monitoring-available-disk-space.md)
- [Adjusting "No Data" alerts for metric Monitors](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/adjusting-no-data-alerts-for-metric-monitors.md)
- [How to update an anomaly detection monitor to account for local timezone](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/how-to-update-anomaly-monitor-timezone.md)
- [Add custom schedules to customize monitor evaluation frequencies](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/custom_schedules.md)
- [as_count() monitor evaluations](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/as-count-in-monitor-evaluations.md)
- [Template variable evaluation](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/template-variable-evaluation.md)

- [Scoping Downtimes](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/scoping_downtimes.md)
- [Prevent alerts from monitors that were in downtime](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/prevent-alerts-from-monitors-that-were-in-downtime.md)

- [Monitor API options](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/monitor_api_options.md)
- [Migrating to On Missing Data Configuration](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/on_missing_data.md)

- [Alert on no change in value](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/alert-on-no-change-in-value.md)
- [Monitoring ranges](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/monitor-for-value-within-a-range.md)
- [Set up an alert for when a specific tag stops reporting](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/set-up-an-alert-for-when-a-specific-tag-stops-reporting.md)
- [Monitor ephemeral servers for reboots](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/monitor-ephemeral-servers-for-reboots.md)
- [Integrate monitors with Statuspage](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/integrate-monitors-with-statuspage.md)
- [Gating your GitHub Actions Deployments with Datadog Monitors](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/github_gating.md)
- [Add a minimum request threshold for error rate alerts](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/add-a-minimum-request-threshold-for-error-rate-alerts.md)
- [Export monitor alerts to CSV](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/export-monitor-alerts-to-csv.md)
- [Composite monitor use cases](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/guide/composite_use_cases.md)