Overview
The ilert integration sends Datadog alerts to ilert and helps DevOps and SREs take immediate action to avoid downtime or operational disruptions. ilert is the AI-first incident management platform that enables teams to cover all stages of the incident cycle. With ilert, teams respond to incidents faster and reduce their Mean Time To Resolution.
Integrate with ilert to:
- Trigger and resolve incidents from Datadog
- Tackle incidents and set up escalation policies as they occur
- Set up a daily reminder of who is on-call
Setup
ilert
Create Datadog alert source
Switch to the Alert Sources tab and click on the “Create new alert source” button
Search for “Datadog”, select the Datadog tile and click on Next.

Assign a name.

Select a desired escalation policy.

On the next page a Webhook URL is generated. You need this URL for the integration setup within Datadog.

Datadog
Add ilert Webhook as alerting channel
From the Datadog Integrations page, install the Webhooks integration.
On the Webhooks integration tile, add a new webhook:

Enter a name, the Datadog webhook URL generated earlier from the ilert alert source, and the template payload:
{
"body": "$EVENT_MSG",
"last_updated": "$LAST_UPDATED",
"event_type": "$EVENT_TYPE",
"alert_transition": "$ALERT_TRANSITION",
"alert_id": "$ALERT_ID",
"link": "$LINK",
"title": "$EVENT_TITLE",
"date": "$DATE",
"org": {
"id": "$ORG_ID",
"name": "$ORG_NAME"
},
"id": "$ID"
}

Click Save.
Data Collected
Metrics
The ilert integration does not include any metrics.
Events
Your ilert triggered and resolved events appear in the ilert platform dashboard.
Service Checks
The ilert integration does not include any service checks.
Troubleshooting
Need help? Contact Datadog Support.