Best answer
Use Nerve with Datadog when a small subset of high-signal monitors should reach iPhone or Android as encrypted phone alerts. Do not use Nerve as a Datadog replacement for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards or monitor management.
Where Nerve fits
DatadogMetrics, logs, traces, monitors, dashboards and investigation.
NerveEncrypted phone delivery for selected events, using a send-only signal path.
AgentOptional signed actions on trusted machines, separate from Datadog alert sending.
Webhook or bridge
Use a Datadog webhook integration or a small internal bridge that extracts monitor name, severity, environment and a Datadog URL, then sends a short Nerve signal.
export NERVE_DSN="nerve://TOKEN:[email protected]"
printf 'Datadog monitor: %s\n%s\n' "$MONITOR_NAME" "$DATADOG_URL" \
| nerve send --severity critical --title "Datadog alert"Keep payloads small
Send the monitor name, service, environment and investigation link. Keep logs, traces and dashboards in Datadog.