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Datadog / Datadog API v2 /

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

general_investigation is no longer accepted

What changed

Usually ignored rather than rejected, so the call succeeds and does something subtly different.

Affects general_investigation on TriggerAttributes reachable from 1 operation. Grep for it: nothing else will tell you.

Who is affected

Code that sends Datadog's TriggerAttributes objects, used by 1 Datadog operation.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
TriggerAttributes.general_investigationpresentabsent

Code that breaks

await client.post("/…", {
  // general_investigation is now ignored, not rejected
  general_investigation: value,
});

Based on Datadog’s published API specification. How severity is decided.