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Datadog / Datadog API v2 /

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

monitor_alert_trigger is no longer accepted

What changed

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

Affects monitor_alert_trigger 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.monitor_alert_triggerpresentabsent

Code that breaks

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

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