DataDog¶

This page documents a legacy sink in Robusta classic

For new setups, we recommend HolmesGPT instead.

HolmesGPT triages your alerts instead of just forwarding them. Sinks are deterministic: they send every notification, unchanged, to a fixed destination, leaving you to read and prioritize each one yourself.

HolmesGPT instead uses AI to investigate each alert, surface the likely root cause, and escalate only what needs attention — so you get fewer, more actionable notifications. Set this up with Alerts Triage for alerts, or Triggered Workflows for custom events.

Robusta can report issues and events in your cluster to the Datadog events API.

Example Output:

To configure datadog sink, we need a DataDog API key. The API key can be retrieved from your DataDog Account.

Configuring the Datadog sink¶

Add this to your generated_values.yaml

sinksConfig:
- datadog_sink:
    name: datadog_sink
    api_key: "datadog api key"

Save the file and run

 helm upgrade robusta robusta/robusta --values=generated_values.yaml