Datadog

Monitoring & Network

Evidence that monitoring is in place in Datadog.

what it checks

Datadog checks in Varman

Verify monitoring and alerting coverage in Datadog. Varman runs one check against Datadog on a schedule and records each result as evidence.

medium severity

Datadog should have at least one monitor so infrastructure/application issues raise alerts.

how to connect

An admin adds the details below in Varman under Integrations. Secret values are encrypted before they are stored.

API Key: Organization Settings > API Keys.
Application Key: Organization Settings > Application Keys (read access).
Datadog site: Your Datadog site, e.g. datadoghq.com, datadoghq.eu, us5.datadoghq.com.