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description: Monitor Types
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# Monitor Types

- [**Host**: Check if one or more hosts are reporting to Datadog.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/host.md)
- [**Metric**: Compare values of a metric with a user-defined threshold.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/metric.md)
- [**Analysis**: Query multiple data sources, chain transformations, and run complex SQL queries.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/analysis.md)
- [**Anomaly**: Detect anomalous behavior for a metric based on historical data.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/anomaly.md)
- [**APM**: Monitor APM metrics or trace queries.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/apm.md)
- [**Audit Trail**: Alert when a specified type of audit log exceeds a user-defined threshold over a given period of time.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/audit_trail.md)
- [**Change Alert**: Alert when the absolute or relative value changes against a user-defined threshold over a given period of time.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/change-alert.md)
- [**CI**: Monitor CI pipelines and tests data gathered by Datadog.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/ci.md)
- [**Cloud Cost**: Monitor cost changes associated with cloud platforms.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/cloud_cost.md)
- [**Composite**: Alert on an expression combining multiple monitors.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/composite.md)
- [**Data Observability**: Monitor freshness, row count, column-level metrics, and custom SQL queries across your data warehouses.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/data_observability.md)
- [**Database Monitoring**: Monitor query execution and explain plan data gathered by Datadog.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/database_monitoring.md)
- [**Error Tracking**: Monitor issues in your applications gathered by Datadog.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/error_tracking.md)
- [**Event**: Monitor events gathered by Datadog.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/event.md)
- [**Forecast**: Alert when a metric is projected to cross a threshold.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/forecasts.md)
- [**Integration**: Monitor metric values or health status from a specific integration.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/integration.md)
- [**Live Process**: Check if one or more processes are running on a host.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/process.md)
- [**Logs**: Alert when a specified type of log exceeds a user-defined threshold over a given period of time.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/log.md)
- [**Network**: Check the status of TCP/HTTP endpoints.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/network.md)
- [**Network Path**: Monitor on Network Path traffic.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/network_path.md)
- [**Cloud Network Monitoring**: Set alerts on your network traffic.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/cloud_network_monitoring.md)
- [**NetFlow**: Monitor flow records from your NetFlow-enabled devices.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/netflow.md)
- [**Outlier**: Alert on members of a group behaving differently than the others.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/outlier.md)
- [**Process Check**: Watch the status produced by the process.up service check.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/process_check.md)
- [**Real User Monitoring**: Monitor real user data gathered by Datadog.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/real_user_monitoring.md)
- [**Service Check**: Monitor the status of arbitrary custom checks.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/service_check.md)
- [**SLO Alerts**: Monitor your SLO's error budget and burn rate.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/slo.md)
- [**Synthetic Monitoring**: Use Synthetic Test Monitors](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/synthetic_monitoring.md)
- [**Watchdog**: Get notified when Watchdog detects anomalous behavior.](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/types/watchdog.md)

## Further Reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Monitor notifications](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/notify.md)
- [Manage monitors](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/manage.md)
- [Detect failed quality checks with GitHub Deployment Protection Rules and Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-github-deployment-protection-rules/)
- [Create, configure, and use Datadog Monitors to stay ahead of issues](https://learn.datadoghq.com/courses/getting-started-monitors)