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Fleet Automation

Create a schedule

Create a new schedule for automated package upgrades.

Schedules define when and how often to automatically deploy package upgrades to a fleet of hosts. Each schedule includes:

  • A filter query to select target hosts
  • A recurrence rule defining maintenance windows
  • A version strategy (e.g., always latest, or N versions behind latest)

When the schedule triggers during a maintenance window, it automatically creates a deployment that upgrades the Datadog Agent to the specified version on all matching hosts.

post/api/unstable/fleet/schedules

Request body

Example request

{
  "data": {
    "attributes": {
      "name": "Weekly Production Agent Updates",
      "query": "env:prod AND service:web",
      "rule": {
        "days_of_week": [
          "Mon",
          "Wed",
          "Fri"
        ],
        "maintenance_window_duration": 1200,
        "start_maintenance_window": "02:00",
        "timezone": "America/New_York"
      },
      "status": "active"
    },
    "type": "schedule"
  }
}

Response

CREATED

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "attributes": {
      "created_at_unix": 1699999999,
      "created_by": "user@example.com",
      "name": "Weekly Production Agent Updates",
      "query": "env:prod AND service:web",
      "rule": {
        "days_of_week": [
          "Mon",
          "Wed",
          "Fri"
        ],
        "maintenance_window_duration": 1200,
        "start_maintenance_window": "02:00",
        "timezone": "America/New_York"
      },
      "status": "active",
      "updated_at_unix": 1699999999,
      "updated_by": "user@example.com"
    },
    "id": "abc-def-ghi-123",
    "type": "schedule"
  }
}