We're happy to announce the release of new muting features for Datadog monitors, allowing teams to filter out expected events and quickly pinpoint critical issues in their infrastructure. With this release, you can mute specific scopes of a monitor on an ad hoc basis using tagging, schedule global downtime during a specific time window to suppress all alerting related to a tag, and automatically mute monitors in response to planned downtime in certain situations such as manual instance shutdowns or autoscaling features. This feature is available for both Datadog customers and non-customers who can sign up for a 14-day free trial and check out the new feature for themselves.