# Datadog Monitor Escalation
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# Datadog Monitor Escalation
Incident ManagementDatadogKubernetesSlackincident.io
Automatically routes Datadog monitor events by severity. Warnings send a message to the on-call Slack channel, while alerts create an incident in Incident.io and automatically scale up the Kubernetes deployment.
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