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API Evangelist conversational phrasing for Datadog Monitors Monitor Validation API

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# Generated by API Evangelist (build-phrasing.py). Our phrasing, not observed demand.
overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist conversational phrasing for Datadog Monitors Monitor Validation API
  version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/datadog-monitor-validation-api-openapi.yml
actions:
- target: $.info
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'
      generator: build-phrasing.py
      label: Generated by API Evangelist
      operations: 1
- target: $.paths['/api/v1/monitor/validate'].post
  update:
    x-apievangelist-phrasing:
      intent: Validate a monitor without creating it
      effect: read
      questions:
      - Can I check whether a monitor query is valid before I create it?
      - What errors come back when a monitor's type or options are wrong?
      instructions:
      - text: Validate a {type} monitor named {name} with query {query} and message {message}.
        slots:
          type: requestBody.type
          name: requestBody.name
          query: requestBody.query
          message: requestBody.message
      - text: Dry-run monitor {name} of type {type} using query {query}, message {message} and options {options}.
        slots:
          name: requestBody.name
          type: requestBody.type
          query: requestBody.query
          message: requestBody.message
          options: requestBody.options
      method: generated
      generated: '2026-10-01'