Our SRE team has carried pagers for 20+ years, and logging into a tool we rarely use is a nightmare. With Datadog Workflow Automation, we can now automatically trigger workflows, gather critical info, and make decisions in seconds—without waking our team at 3am.
Jeremy Stinson
Chief Architect of SaaS, Precisely
We use Datadog to automate operations across multiple production environments, enabling faster reactions and system self-healing. Embedding workflows in Dashboards alongside charts and notes helps operators act quickly and decisively when handling infrastructure and customer requests.
Ramon Snir
Co-founder and CTO, InScreen
Workflow Automation helped us create an automated alert system to manage incidents more efficiently within Datadog. Automatically triggering workflows in response to alerts reduces cognitive load during stressful events, letting us focus on resolving issues with greater ease.
Ivan Kiselev
Senior Software Engineer, Lightspeed
Reacting quickly to changes in complex systems requires automation. Datadog provides an intuitive way to leverage context-rich data to automate monitor creation, update integrations, and reduce complexity and overhead in reliability and incident response engineering.
Ryan Kleeberger
SRE, Protolabs
Feature Overview
Datadog Workflow Automation enables you to easily automate and orchestrate processes across your tech stack with more than 1,750 out-of-the-box actions and more than 150 customizable blueprints, all accessible through a point-and-click interface. By seamlessly integrating real-time observability data with automatic remediation, you can take instant action in response to problems, enabling you to resolve issues faster and with greater confidence.
Works great with
Application Performance MonitoringAutomatically trigger remediation actions
- Trigger custom workflows automatically in response to monitors and security signals, or schedule them in advance
- Enrich your workflows with real-time monitoring data, facilitating quicker and more informed remediation
- Instantly access and trigger your workflows from anywhere in the Datadog platform, including your dashboards, alerts, and signals
Visually build end-to-end workflows
- Easily automate routine tasks, on-call procedures, security tasks, remediation processes, and more with an intuitive point-and-click builder
- Instantly leverage native Datadog actions across metrics, logs, monitors, and more
- Utilize more than 1,750 out-of-the-box actions to seamlessly connect to key services and technologies such as AWS, Cloudflare, GitLab, Slack, and more
- Maintain the flexibility to interact with any Rest API using HTTP requests
- Communicate with both cloud and private environments
- Build complex workflows with multi-step automation using logic operators, branching, conditions, iterations, and more
Build workflows faster using conversational AI
- Go from idea to automation in seconds—no YAML or scripting required
- Use simple natural-language descriptions to generate, edit, and iterate on workflows in real time
- Powerful workflows for managing infrastructure, handling on-call incidents, or responding to threats
Store, manage, and retrieve data from your apps with Datastore
- Build stateful workflows with Datastore’s data persistence
- Fast lookups and updates at runtime across all workflows
- Flexible schemas that support complex fields, including JSON objects and column updates
- Collaboration tools such as a dedicated UI, out-of-the-box actions, and RBAC support
Get started fast with pre-built blueprints
- Automate essential processes across DevOps, security, and more with over with over 150 pre-built blueprints that can be customized to align with your team’s unique workflows
- Create your own pre-configured action blueprints to standardize and maintain consistency in your response workflows as your organization scales
- Consolidate all your workflows and blueprints in a centralized hub for easy access and maintenance
Automate complex processes while maintaining human control
- Include human decision-making steps in workflows to manage critical tasks effectively
- Control who can access, modify, and execute workflows with granular role-based access control (RBAC)
- Gain visibility into every workflow execution, including its status and input/output data, through a detailed debugging view