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title: Monitor Types
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)