Choose your monitor type:

Host: Check if one or more hosts are reporting to Datadog. Metric: Compare values of a metric with a user-defined threshold. Anomaly: Detect anomalous behavior for a metric based on historical data. APM: Monitor APM metrics or trace queries. Audit Trail: Alert when a specified type of audit log exceeds a user-defined threshold over a given period of time. CI: Monitor CI pipelines and tests data gathered by Datadog. Cloud Cost: Monitor cost changes associated with cloud platforms. Composite: Alert on an expression combining multiple monitors. Database Monitoring: Monitor query execution and explain plan data gathered by Datadog. Error Tracking: Monitor issues in your applications gathered by Datadog. Event: Monitor events gathered by Datadog. Forecast: Alert when a metric is projected to cross a threshold. Integration: Monitor metric values or health status from a specific integration. Live Process: Check if one or more processes are running on a host. Logs: Alert when a specified type of log exceeds a user-defined threshold over a given period of time. Network: Check the status of TCP/HTTP endpoints. Network Performance: Set alerts on your network traffic. Outlier: Alert on members of a group behaving differently than the others. Process Check: Watch the status produced by the process.up service check. Real User Monitoring: Monitor real user data gathered by Datadog. Service Check: Monitor the status of arbitrary custom checks. SLO Alerts: Monitor your SLO's error budget and burn rate. Synthetic Monitoring: Monitor metric values or test status from Synthetic test runs. Watchdog: Get notified when Watchdog detects anomalous behavior.

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