diff --git a/content/en/monitors/quality/_index.md b/content/en/monitors/quality/_index.md index 473458625e5de..4130c15b95bf9 100644 --- a/content/en/monitors/quality/_index.md +++ b/content/en/monitors/quality/_index.md @@ -16,15 +16,16 @@ The Monitor Quality feature in Datadog identifies common misconfigurations in mo ## View misconfigured monitors -From the [**Manage Monitors**][8] page, click the [**Monitor Quality**][7] tab to access a list of monitors that need improvement. Datadog automatically enables this feature after you create your first monitor. +From the [**Manage Monitors**][8] page, click the [**Monitor Quality**][7] tab to access a list of monitors that need improvement. Datadog automatically enables this feature after you create your first monitor. -Filter and view the [Monitor Quality page][7] based on the teams, creators, services, or environments to organize and manage the list. +Filter and view the [Monitor Quality page][7] based on the teams, creators, services, or environments to organize and manage the list. {{< img src="monitors/quality/filter_monitor_quality.png" alt="Filtering dropdown options for creators, teams, services, and env available on the Monitor Quality page" style="width:100%;" >}} ## Improve monitors and follow best practices Monitor Quality displays your monitors with the following quality issues: +- [High volume of alerts](#high-volume-of-alerts) - [Muted for over 60 days](#muted-for-over-60-days) - [Missing recipients](#monitors-are-missing-recipients) - [Missing a delay](#missing-a-delay) @@ -32,6 +33,10 @@ Monitor Quality displays your monitors with the following quality issues: - [Composite monitors are missing constituents](#composite-monitors-are-missing-constituents) - [Stuck in an alert state](#stuck-in-alert-state) +### High volume of alerts + +Monitors that trigger too frequently can lead to alert fatigue and desensitize teams to important alerts. With the Monitor Quality page, you can identify and fix monitors that are generating a high volume of alerts. + ### Muted for over 60 days [Downtimes][1] are useful for silencing alerts during scheduled maintenance, planned outages or system shutdowns, or to stop alerts during weekends and evenings. However, monitors that have been muted, or partially muted, for an extended period (more than 60 days) may indicate an oversight. You can unmute these monitors to resume alerting and ensure comprehensive monitoring coverage. @@ -56,7 +61,7 @@ See which monitors have misconfigured notification channels and edit them as nec ### Composite monitors are missing constituents -[Composite monitors][6] evaluate the combined state of multiple sub monitors (constituents) following user-defined logic. Composite monitors that reference deleted constituents do not evaluate or notify. Identify inactive composite monitors and delete them. +[Composite monitors][6] evaluate the combined state of multiple sub monitors (constituents) following user-defined logic. Composite monitors that reference deleted constituents do not evaluate or notify. Identify inactive composite monitors and delete them. ### Stuck in alert state