# Datadog APM Spans Metrics API

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

Datadog APM Spans Metrics 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 Spans Metrics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Create, read, update and delete span-based metric definitions — a compute over a span attribute, a filter query and group-by tags. Five operations.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

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

## Other Datadog APM APIs (7)

- [Datadog APM Spans API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog-apm/datadog-apm-spans-api/)
- [Datadog APM Retention Filters API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog-apm/datadog-apm-retention-filters-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

Spans Metrics

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/datadog-apm/datadog-apm-spans-metrics-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/datadog-apm/.