Datadog APM

Datadog APM Spans API

Search, list and aggregate APM spans. Three operations covering cursor-paginated span search (POST and GET forms) and a span analytics aggregation that returns single numbers, single strings or timeseries buckets.

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Operations 3

Each operation below carries the questions people ask an LLM about it and the instructions they give an agent to run it. Generated by API Evangelist overlay

POST /api/v2/spans/analytics/aggregate Aggregate spans into metrics and timeseries · Aggregate spans #

Ask an LLM

“Can I compute p95 latency per service from my spans over a time range?”

“How do I bucket spans and count them as a timeseries?”

Tell an agent

Aggregate spans using {aggregation} and return the computed buckets.

Count error spans grouped by service as a timeseries for the last day.

GET /api/v2/spans/events List recent spans matching a query · Get a list of spans #

Ask an LLM

“What are the latest spans for a service in the last 15 minutes?”

“Can I pull spans with a simple query string and time range in the URL?”

Tell an agent

Get the latest spans matching {query} from {from} to {to}.

List up to {limit} of my most recent spans.

POST /api/v2/spans/events/search Search spans with a complex filter body · Search spans #

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“How do I run an advanced span search with a full filter object in the request body?”

“Which spans match a complex search across several attributes?”

Tell an agent

Search spans using the filter body {search}.

Run a complex span search for slow checkout requests with errors, sorted by duration.

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Datadog APM — APM, and Service Definitions (API v2) Spans…
  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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