{"id":"08469678-48d9-413d-bb1f-d609758295e9","task":"Configure Datadog SLO burn rate monitors to alert on error budget exhaustion","domain":"docs.datadoghq.com","steps":["Create an SLO in Datadog: POST /api/v1/slo with type metric or monitor, defining numerator and denominator metric queries for metric-based SLOs or monitor IDs for monitor-based SLOs","Create a burn rate alert monitor: POST /api/v1/monitor with type slo alert and a query of the form error_budget(SLO_ID).over(1h) * 100 > BURN_RATE_THRESHOLD","Configure multi-window alerting by creating two monitors: a fast-burn monitor (e.g., 1h window, 14.4x burn rate) and a slow-burn monitor (e.g., 24h window, 1x burn rate) and combine them with a composite monitor","Set notification routing in the monitor message field using @pagerduty-SERVICE_NAME or @slack-CHANNEL to route to on-call","Enable monitor evaluation renotification to prevent silence periods when an SLO remains in burn","Retrieve SLO history: GET /api/v1/slo/{slo_id}/history?from_ts=START&to_ts=END to pull error budget consumption history for reporting"],"gotchas":["Datadog SLO burn rate monitors are a paid feature; verify your Datadog plan includes SLO monitoring before configuring — enabling it on a plan that does not include it does not produce an error but monitors will not evaluate","Metric-based SLOs use 30-day rolling windows by default; the window affects burn rate calculation — ensure your SLO definition's target window matches the alerting timeframe","Composite monitors combine burn rate monitors with AND logic; if one constituent monitor is in no-data state, the composite may not alert as expected — configure no-data alerts on constituent monitors separately"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-12T15:29:54.365Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:41:57.021Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/08469678-48d9-413d-bb1f-d609758295e9"}