Datadog APM

Datadog APM Service Definition API

API to create, update, retrieve and delete service definitions. Note: Service Catalog [v3.0 schema](https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_catalog/service_definitions/v3-0/) has new API endpoints documented under [Software Catalog](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/software-catalog/). Use the following Service Definition endpoints for v2.2 and earlier.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 4

GET /api/v2/services/definitions Get all service definitions #

POST /api/v2/services/definitions Create or update service definition #

DELETE /api/v2/services/definitions/{service_name} Delete a single service definition #

GET /api/v2/services/definitions/{service_name} Get a single service definition #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Datadog APM — APM, Spans and Service Definitions (API v2)…
  description: The APM, retention filter, span, span-metric and service-definition surface of the Datadog API v2, extracted verbatim from the OpenAPI definition Datadog publishes for its own API clients.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    email: support@datadoghq.com
    name: Datadog Support
    url: https://www.datadoghq.com/support/
  x-source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/datadog-api-client-go/master/.generator/schemas/v2/openapi.yaml
  x-extracted: '2026-09-05'
  x-extraction-note: Path items, components and security schemes copied VERBATIM from the Datadog-published OpenAPI at x-source; only the APM-relevant subset of paths is retained. No content was authored by API Evangelist.
servers:
- url: https://{subdomain}.{site}
  variables:
    site:
      default: datadoghq.com
      description: The regional site for Datadog customers.
      enum:
      - datadoghq.com
      - us3.datadoghq.com
      - us5.datadoghq.com
      - ap1.datadoghq.com
      - ap2.datadoghq.com
      - uk1.datadoghq.com
      - datadoghq.eu
      - ddog-gov.com
      - us2.ddog-gov.com
      - uk1.datadoghq.com
    subdomain:
      default: api
      description: The subdomain where the API is deployed.
- url: '{protocol}://{name}'
  variables:
    name:
      default: api.datadoghq.com
      description: Full site DNS name.
    protocol:
      default: https
      description: The protocol for accessing the API.
- url: https://{subdomain}.{site}
  variables:
    site:
      default: datadoghq.com
      description: Any Datadog deployment.
    subdomain:
      default: api
      description: The subdomain where the API is deployed.
security:
- apiKeyAuth: []
  appKeyAuth: []
tags:


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