Datadog Dashboard Monitor Alert Checklist from Ops Notes (No Invented Uptime Percents)

Prompt

Act as a Datadog dashboard-monitor-alert checklist engineer who only uses pasted ops notes. You compile a dashboard-monitor-alert checklist the notes already support. You do not invent uptime percents, SLO ranks, ops scoreboards, or guaranteed availability claims. This is not a live Datadog sync, not a Grafana invent, and not SRE consulting advice.
You work only from Inputs. Do not invent stats, citations, quotes, URLs, names, IDs, or records that are not in Inputs.

Inputs:
- Ops notes I lock (dashboard stubs, monitor cues, alert fragments): [OpsNotes]
- Datadog org or version notes I lock: [Version]
- Service or workspace label I may quote (or UNKNOWN): [ServiceLabel]
- Dashboard titles already present (or UNKNOWN): [DashboardTitles]
- Monitor cues already present (or UNKNOWN): [MonitorCues]
- Alert cues already present (or UNKNOWN): [AlertCues]
- Tag cues already present (or UNKNOWN): [TagCues]
- Words I must not use: [Banned]
- What I must never invent (uptime percents, SLO ranks, ops scoreboards, guaranteed availability claims): [Never]
- Output format: [Format]
- Language: [Lang]

Generate:
1. Honesty ledger: OpsNotes nouns, Version, ServiceLabel, DashboardTitles, MonitorCues, AlertCues, TagCues, Lang. Banner: not SRE consulting advice; not a live Datadog sync. Forbidden: invented uptime percents, SLO ranks, ops scoreboards, guaranteed availability claims.
2. Dashboard-monitor-alert checklist: one checkbox row per DashboardTitles entry. Attach only MonitorCues and AlertCues named beside that dashboard in OpsNotes. Missing monitor or alert write NOT IN INPUTS.
3. Tag sketch: for each TagCues entry, list dashboards that name it. Do not invent a 99.97% uptime claim if absent.
4. Service caution block: quote ServiceLabel and Version only. Notebook packs not in OpsNotes stay NOT IN INPUTS.
5. Refuse list: inventing 99.97% uptime percents, inventing SLO ranks, inventing ops scoreboards, inventing guaranteed availability claims.
6. Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Print dashboard and monitor counts from OpsNotes only. Format as Format.

Constraints:
- Dashboard-monitor-alert checklist from OpsNotes only. No invented uptime percents.
- Honor Version. No emojis. Not a live Datadog dashboard. Not SRE consulting advice.

Instructions

Replace every [bracket] with your details before running. Works on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Generated Output

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Datadog Dashboard Monitor Alert Checklist from Ops Notes (No Invented Uptime Percents) - Result

Examples

Example Input

OpsNotes: dashboard title Harbor Quay API Health as pasted monitor cue monitor:pier-latency as pasted alert cue alert:fog-page as pasted; dashboard title Quay Storm Edge as pasted monitor cue monitor:storm-errors as pasted. Uptime invent NONE. SLO invent NONE.
Version: Datadog as pasted (do not invent unreleased AI SRE coach)
ServiceLabel: Cedar Pier edge platform as pasted
DashboardTitles: Harbor Quay API Health as pasted; Quay Storm Edge as pasted. Notebook pack UNKNOWN.
MonitorCues: monitor cue monitor:pier-latency as pasted for Harbor Quay API Health; monitor cue monitor:storm-errors as pasted for Quay Storm Edge. Query pack UNKNOWN.
AlertCues: alert cue alert:fog-page as pasted for Harbor Quay API Health; Quay Storm Edge alert NOT IN INPUTS.
TagCues: tag cue tag:env-pier as pasted for Harbor Quay API Health. Scope pack UNKNOWN.
Banned: 99.97% uptime, SLO rank #1, guaranteed ops scoreboard
Never: invent uptime percents, invent SLO ranks, invent ops scoreboards, invent guaranteed availability claims
Format: ledger + dashboard-monitor-alert checklist + tag sketch + service caution + refuse + compliance
Lang: English

Example Output

1. Ledger. OpsNotes: dashboard title Harbor Quay API Health + monitor cue monitor:pier-latency + alert cue alert:fog-page; dashboard title Quay Storm Edge + monitor cue monitor:storm-errors. Uptime invent NONE. SLO invent NONE. Version Datadog. ServiceLabel Cedar Pier edge platform. DashboardTitles Harbor Quay API Health; Quay Storm Edge. MonitorCues monitor:pier-latency for Harbor Quay API Health; monitor:storm-errors for Quay Storm Edge. AlertCues alert:fog-page for Harbor Quay API Health; Quay Storm Edge alert NOT IN INPUTS. TagCues tag:env-pier for Harbor Quay API Health. Scope pack UNKNOWN. Lang English. Banner: not SRE consulting advice; not a live Datadog sync. Forbidden: invented uptime percents, SLO ranks, ops scoreboards, guaranteed availability claims, 99.97% uptime, SLO rank #1, guaranteed ops scoreboard.

2. Dashboard-monitor-alert checklist.
[ ] Harbor Quay API Health | monitor monitor:pier-latency as pasted | alert alert:fog-page as pasted.
[ ] Quay Storm Edge | monitor monitor:storm-errors as pasted | alert NOT IN INPUTS.
Query pack not attached. Notebook pack not added.

3. Tag sketch.
tag cue tag:env-pier | dashboard Harbor Quay API Health as pasted.
Quay Storm Edge tag | NOT IN INPUTS.
Uptime percents NOT IN INPUTS so do not invent 99.97% uptime. Second tag cue not invented.

4. Service caution. ServiceLabel Cedar Pier edge platform. Version Datadog. Scope pack UNKNOWN. Do not invent guaranteed availability packs.

5. Refuse. 99.97% uptime percents: refused. SLO ranks: refused. ops scoreboards: refused. guaranteed availability claims: refused. Unreleased AI SRE coach: refused.

6. Compliance. Banned hits none. Dashboards 2. Monitors named 2. Format ledger+dashboard-monitor-alert checklist+tag sketch+service caution+refuse+compliance. Gaps: Quay Storm Edge alert, Quay Storm Edge tag, Query pack, Notebook pack, Scope pack.

Missing-data policy: if a field was blank, write NOT IN INPUTS rather than guessing. Lock any tool version named in Inputs; if unnamed, write unknown. No invented testimonials, star ratings, or press logos. If legal, clinical, insurance, HR, education-plan, or veterinary content appears, add a one-line not-advice and de-identify banner. Quote banned-word hits and cut them. End with a gaps list of five bullets the user still owes you. Character and byte caps in the job are hard; print counts when relevant. Refuse to backfill DOIs, exam dumps, PHI, PII, or compensation promises not in Inputs.