Workflow Automation

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 300 out-of-the-box actions and more than 40 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.

Automatically 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

One screen shows a monitor in alert state, and another one showing a workflow execution in progress

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
Utilize more than 300 out-of-the-box actions to seamlessly connect to key services and technologies such as AWS, Cloudflare, GitLab, Slack, and more
Build complex workflows with multi-step automation using logic operators, branching, conditions, iterations, and more

A step in a workflow is added by selecting an AWS action from the catalog and is then configured

Get started fast with pre-built blueprints

Automate essential processes across DevOps, security, and more with over 40 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

Scrolling through list of available pre-built blueprints in the blueprint overview page

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