---
title: "Datadog integration: four merge queue metrics are being retired"
date: 2026-09-08
tags:
  - Deprecations
  - Integrations
description: "The operational Datadog metrics are retired in favour of the mergify.queue.* set shipped in July. Two have a renamed counterpart, two have none."
---

The Datadog integration published two sets of metrics side by side. The older set is now retired in favour of the `mergify.queue.*` metrics shipped in July, which cover queue throughput, health and performance, and come with a ready-made dashboard.

## What stops being published

- `mergify.merge_queue_length`
- `mergify.queue_checks_outcome`
- `mergify.time_to_merge`, along with its `.mean`, `.median`, `.95percentile`, `.99percentile`, `.min` and `.max` variants
- `mergify.scheduled_freeze`
## What to use instead

Two of them have a close counterpart under a new name:

Both carry a different Datadog metric type, so a dashboard widget needs adjusting rather than a simple rename.

The time-to-merge percentiles and `mergify.scheduled_freeze` have no direct replacement.

## What to check on your side

If you built dashboards or monitors on any of these names, they will report no data once this ships.