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Datadog Monitor History Recap in MS Teams

An engineer asks the bot about a Datadog monitor in Microsoft Teams and gets a recap of how often it has fired recently, its flakiness pattern.

CategoryChatbots
Enginepaperclip
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerchat
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerEngineer asks about a monitor in MS TeamsMicrosoft Teams
  • ActionQuery monitor transition history over lookbackDatadogDatadog
  • ActionPull deploy timestamps for the same periodGitHubGitHub
  • LogicCompute frequency, flakiness, and deploy-correlation rate
  • OutputReply with recap card and tuning recommendationMicrosoft Teams

What it does

Provides historical perspective on a Datadog monitor rather than just the current state. When someone asks about a monitor in Teams, the bot summarizes its firing history, flags whether it is chronically noisy, and reports how many past alerts coincided with deploys, helping teams decide whether to tune or trust it.

When to use it

Use it during alert reviews or when deciding whether a paging monitor deserves its severity. Ideal for teams on Microsoft Teams who want to separate signal from chronic noise before acting on a fire.

How it works

The operator asks about a monitor by name or ID in Microsoft Teams. The workflow queries the Datadog events and monitor history API for all transitions over a chosen lookback. It pulls GitHub deploy timestamps for the same period. A logic step computes fire frequency, average duration, and the share of alerts that occurred shortly after a deploy. The bot replies in Teams with a recap card: total fires, flakiness verdict, deploy-correlation rate, and a recommendation to keep, tune, or downgrade the monitor.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect Microsoft TeamsChannels, chats, files.
  2. 2
    Connect DatadogMetrics, traces, log search.
  3. 3
    Connect GitHubRepos, issues, pull requests, actions.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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