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Date Published
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Addie Beach, Erica Ho, Alex Guo
Word count
1046
Language
English
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None

Summary

The Doctor Droid integration with Datadog automates the process of investigating incoming alerts, providing critical context and insights to help users quickly evaluate the severity of an alert and decide on next steps. By running triage workflows on incoming alerts, Doctor Droid groups relevant alerts together and determines their legitimacy, providing a quality score that helps identify noisy alerts and evaluates various aspects of the alerting strategy. The integration also enables users to configure custom playbooks within Doctor Droid to perform initial investigative actions, such as fetching metrics from monitoring platforms like Datadog or querying relevant databases. These summaries are then enriched with organization-specific information, providing a high-level overview of impacted resources and potential root causes. With the Datadog Doctor Droid integration, users can easily access these summaries as Datadog events, which can be configured to send findings from any connected runbooks to the alerting platform of their choice when these monitors are triggered. This enables users to receive enriched alerts within tools that are already part of their workflows, such as PagerDuty, Slack, and Teams. The integration also helps users conduct more in-depth root cause analysis by viewing Doctor Droid's analyses of resources impacted by recent incidents, which can be accessed through the Datadog dashboard. By integrating Doctor Droid with Datadog, users can quickly assess critical issues, reduce alerting noise, and enhance their monitoring tools with automated playbooks and detailed evaluations.