Overview
Watchdog is an algorithmic feature for APM, Infrastructure, and Logs. It automatically detects potential issues by continuously observing trends and patterns in metrics and logs, and looking for atypical behavior.
Monitor creation
To create a Watchdog monitor in Datadog, use the main navigation: Monitors –> New Monitor –> Watchdog.
Define your query
Select the scope to be alerted on with the following optional configurations (wildcards are supported):
1. Predefined selectors
- Environment. These values are derived from the
env tag. - Alert Category. Scope the monitor to a subset of Watchdog alerts.
- Team. These values are derived from the Service Catalog.
2. Additional scoping
- Filter on any additional tag available on the Watchdog event.
- Group By the dimensions you want to group notifications by.
After your selections are made, the graph at the top of the monitor creation page displays the matching Watchdog events over the selected time frame.
Log anomalies are found based on the service, source, and env tags. If your query includes any of these tags, only log anomalies matching them are shown. If other tags, such as host, are included in the query, Watchdog uses those tags to show only relevant combinations of service, source, or env.
Notifications
For more instructions on the Configure notifications and automations section, see the Notifications page.
Further Reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:
