# datadog_monitor – Manages Datadog monitors

- Synopsis

- Requirements

- Parameters

- Examples

- Status

## Synopsis

- Manages monitors within Datadog.

- Options as described on https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/.

## Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- datadog

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
api_key string / required |  | Your Datadog API key.
app_key string / required |  | Your Datadog app key.
escalation_message string |  | A message to include with a re-notification. Supports the '@username' notification we allow elsewhere. Not applicable if renotify_interval=None.
evaluation_delay string added in 2.7 |  | Time to delay evaluation (in seconds). Effective for sparse values.
id string |  | The ID of the alert. If set, will be used instead of the name to locate the alert.

locked
boolean

Choices:
- no ←
- yes

Whether changes to this monitor should be restricted to the creator or admins.

message string |  | A message to include with notifications for this monitor. Email notifications can be sent to specific users by using the same '@username' notation as events. Monitor message template variables can be accessed by using double square brackets, i.e '[[' and ']]'.
name string / required |  | The name of the alert.
new_host_delay string added in 2.4 |  | A positive integer representing the number of seconds to wait before evaluating the monitor for new hosts. This gives the host time to fully initialize.
no_data_timeframe string | Default: "2x timeframe for metric, 2 minutes for service" | The number of minutes before a monitor will notify when data stops reporting. Must be at least 2x the monitor timeframe for metric alerts or 2 minutes for service checks.

notify_audit
boolean

Choices:
- no ←
- yes

Whether tagged users will be notified on changes to this monitor.

notify_no_data
boolean

Choices:
- no ←
- yes

Whether this monitor will notify when data stops reporting.

query string |  | The monitor query to notify on. Syntax varies depending on what type of monitor you are creating.
renotify_interval string |  | The number of minutes after the last notification before a monitor will re-notify on the current status. It will only re-notify if it is not resolved.

require_full_window
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

Whether this monitor needs a full window of data before it gets evaluated.
We highly recommend you set this to False for sparse metrics, otherwise some evaluations will be skipped.

silenced - | Default: "" | Dictionary of scopes to silence, with timestamps or None. Each scope will be muted until the given POSIX timestamp or forever if the value is None.

state
string / required

Choices:
- present
- absent
- mute
- unmute

The designated state of the monitor.

tags list |  | A list of tags to associate with your monitor when creating or updating. This can help you categorize and filter monitors.
thresholds - | Default: {"critical": 1, "ok": 1, "warning": 1} | A dictionary of thresholds by status. Only available for service checks and metric alerts. Because each of them can have multiple thresholds, we do not define them directly in the query.
timeout_h string |  | The number of hours of the monitor not reporting data before it will automatically resolve from a triggered state.

type
string

Choices:
- metric alert
- service check
- event alert

The type of the monitor.

## Examples

    # Create a metric monitor
    - datadog_monitor:
        type: "metric alert"
        name: "Test monitor"
        state: "present"
        query: "datadog.agent.up.over('host:host1').last(2).count_by_status()"
        message: "Host [[host.name]] with IP [[host.ip]] is failing to report to datadog."
        api_key: "9775a026f1ca7d1c6c5af9d94d9595a4"
        app_key: "87ce4a24b5553d2e482ea8a8500e71b8ad4554ff"

    # Deletes a monitor
    - datadog_monitor:
        name: "Test monitor"
        state: "absent"
        api_key: "9775a026f1ca7d1c6c5af9d94d9595a4"
        app_key: "87ce4a24b5553d2e482ea8a8500e71b8ad4554ff"

    # Mutes a monitor
    - datadog_monitor:
        name: "Test monitor"
        state: "mute"
        silenced: '{"*":None}'
        api_key: "9775a026f1ca7d1c6c5af9d94d9595a4"
        app_key: "87ce4a24b5553d2e482ea8a8500e71b8ad4554ff"

    # Unmutes a monitor
    - datadog_monitor:
        name: "Test monitor"
        state: "unmute"
        api_key: "9775a026f1ca7d1c6c5af9d94d9595a4"
        app_key: "87ce4a24b5553d2e482ea8a8500e71b8ad4554ff"

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Sebastian Kornehl (@skornehl)

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