Overview

Datadog Case Management allows customization to align with your team’s unique workflows, data capture needs, and reporting requirements.

Custom Case Types

Datadog provides five built-in case types, each designed for common workflows. To customize Case Management for your team’s needs, you can define your own custom case types. This allows you to:

• Scope custom data capture to relevant work types
• Enable targeted automation
• Conduct more granular analytics and reporting

Create a custom case type

1. Navigate to Settings > Shared Settings > Case Types.
2. Click + Create Case Type.
3. Provide a Name and an optional Description.
4. Save your new case type.
5. (Optional) See the custom attributes section of this page to add custom attributes.

Enable a custom case type

After you create a custom case type, you must explicitly assign it to each project where it should be available. Follow the steps below to enable your new case type within a specific Case Management project.

1. Back on the Settings page, locate the target project under either Starred Projects or Other Projects.
2. Expand the project menu by clicking on the project name.
3. Click General to open the project’s settings panel.
4. Scroll down to the Case Types section in the settings panel.
5. Under From your organization, open the dropdown and select the custom case type you created.

After you add the case type, it is available as an option when you create a new case within that project.

Your new case type is available for:

• Manual case creation
• API-based creation
• Automated case creation through Workflows

Custom attributes

Custom attributes allow you to capture the structured data your team needs to work efficiently and report effectively. All case types, whether Datadog-provided or custom, include five reserved attributes that cannot be removed or modified:

• Teams
• Services
• Environments
• Datacenters
• Versions

You can add attributes that reflect your team’s specific needs, such as escalation levels, component owners, business impact, or external links. To add a custom attribute:

1. Navigate to Settings > Shared Settings > Case Types.
2. Click the desired case type.
3. Click + Add Attribute.
4. Provide:
   • Display Name (such as “Region”)
   • Key (used for programmatic access and reporting)
   • Description (optional context for your team)
   • Data Type, choose from:
     • Text
     • URL
     • Number
   • Choose whether to allow multiple values for this attribute.

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Case Management OverviewDOCUMENTATION Create a caseDOCUMENTATION SettingsDOCUMENTATION