Datadog how do i change a monitor to a single alert with no recovery

Question

So i currently have a monitor set up that sends an alert, but after 5 mins it also send a recovery alert. What i wanted to find out was is it possible to have a monitor that only sends the alert but no recovery alert.

I need a one off alert on error thats it.

Answer 1

To extend onto draav's answer, your notification template should look like this when notification needs to be sent only in case of alert

{{#is_alert}}

This is my alert content!

@[email protected]
{{/is_alert}}

This approach can be further extended when we want to notify different users for different type of notifications.

Below example sends alert notification to [email protected] and recovery notification to [email protected].

{{#is_alert}}

Something went wrong!

@[email protected]
{{/is_alert}}

{{#is_alert_recovery}}

Things are back to normal!

@[email protected]
{{/is_alert_recovery}}