Integrating Pulsetic Alerts with Datadog

Stop treating uptime tracking and server monitoring as separate silos. When a critical monitor goes offline, your engineering team shouldn't have to scramble to align timestamps across different dashboards to figure out what broke.

By connecting Pulsetic directly to Datadog, you pipe your external availability data straight into your primary engineering hub, creating a single source of truth for incident response.

Why Connect Pulsetic to Datadog?

The core use case is accelerated root-cause analysis.

Pulsetic monitors the external symptom (e.g., your users in Europe are getting a 502 Bad Gateway error). Datadog monitors the internal cause (e.g., your Kubernetes pod crashed, or database CPU spiked to 100%).

By sending Pulsetic alerts into your Datadog Event Stream, you create a unified timeline. If Pulsetic reports downtime at exactly 2:04 PM, and Datadog shows a database deployment at 2:03 PM, the root cause is immediately obvious. Furthermore, this allows you to trigger your existing Datadog routing workflows (like waking up an engineer via PagerDuty) using Pulsetic's external downtime detection.

Datadog Integration Process

Step 1: Generate a Datadog API Key

To allow Pulsetic to securely send data, you must generate a dedicated API key inside Datadog.

1. Log into your Datadog account. Click your profile picture or organization name in the bottom-left corner.

   

2. Select Organization Settings. From the left-hand menu, click API Keys

   

3. Click the New Key button in the top right. Name it something identifiable, such as Pulsetic-Alerts  , so you know exactly what it's for during future security audits.
4. Click Create Key, then copy the generated alphanumeric string.

Step 2: Configure Pulsetic & Send Test Requests

Next, we tell Pulsetic where to send your downtime alerts.

1. Log into Pulsetic. Select the monitor you want to connect and set the alert.
2. Scroll down to the Datadog option. Paste the API Key you copied in Step 1.

3. Datadog operates several isolated data centers. You must select the region that matches the URL you use to log into Datadog (e.g., if your URL is app.datadoghq.eu  , select EU1).

   

4. Send the Tests: Within the Datadog setup block in Pulsetic, you will see two buttons.
   • Click Send offline request to simulate a downtime event.
   • Click Send online request to simulate a recovery event.

Step 3: Datadog Verification

Unlike Slack or email integrations which send human-readable messages, Datadog receives these tests as raw data points called Events. Here is how to find them and prove the integration works.

1. Go back to your Datadog dashboard. In the left-hand navigation menu, click on Monitoring. Locate Event Management, and click on All Events.

   

2. Datadog's event stream can be very noisy. To find your tests immediately, click the search bar at the top and type exactly: source:pulsetic  or locate the Source section and select pulsetic.

3. You should see your two test events populate in the timeline.