# Datadog APM Retention Filters API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/datadog-apm/datadog-apm-retention-filters-api/  
**Provider:** Datadog APM — https://apis.io/providers/datadog-apm/  
**Base URL:** https://api.datadoghq.com  
**Documentation:** https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/apm-retention-filters/

Datadog APM Retention Filters API is one of 8 APIs that [Datadog APM](https://apis.io/providers/datadog-apm/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include APM Retention Filters. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Manage the ordered list of retention filters that decide which spans Datadog indexes and for how long. Six operations including a whole-list reorder. The highest-consequence write surface in Datadog APM — a deleted filter loses observability data that cannot be recovered.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/datadog-apm/refs/heads/main/openapi/datadog-apm-retention-filters-api-openapi.yml
- **Overlay** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/datadog-apm/refs/heads/main/overlays/datadog-apm-retention-filters-overlay.yaml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/apm-retention-filters/

## Other Datadog APM APIs (7)

- [Datadog APM Spans API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog-apm/datadog-apm-spans-api/)
- [Datadog APM Spans Metrics API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog-apm/datadog-apm-spans-metrics-api/)
- [Datadog APM Services API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog-apm/datadog-apm-services-api/)
- [Datadog APM Service Definitions API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog-apm/datadog-apm-service-definitions-api/)
- [Datadog APM Service Level Objectives API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog-apm/datadog-apm-slos-api/)
- [Datadog APM SLO Corrections API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog-apm/datadog-apm-slo-corrections-api/)
- [Datadog MCP Server](https://apis.io/apis/datadog-apm/datadog-apm-mcp-server/)

## Tags

APM Retention Filters

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