# Datadog Downtimes API

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

Datadog Downtimes API is one of 290 APIs that [Datadog](https://apis.io/providers/datadog/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Alerting, Downtimes, and Monitors. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

The Downtimes API gives you greater control over monitor notifications by allowing you to globally exclude scopes from alerting. Downtime settings can be scheduled with start and end times to prevent alerting for specified Datadog tags.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/downtimes/
- **Reference** — https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/notify/downtimes/

## Other Datadog APIs (12)

- [Datadog Dashboards API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-dashboards-api/)
- [Datadog Synthetics API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-synthetics-api/)
- [Datadog Service Level Objectives API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-service-level-objectives-api/)
- [Datadog Security Monitoring API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-security-monitoring-api/)
- [Datadog Service Definition API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-service-definition-api/)
- [Datadog Software Catalog API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-software-catalog-api/)
- [Datadog Users API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-users-api/)
- [Datadog Roles API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-roles-api/)
- [Datadog Key Management API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-key-management-api/)
- [Datadog Organizations API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-organizations-api/)
- [Datadog RUM API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-rum-api/)
- [Datadog APM Retention Filters API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-apm-retention-filters-api/)

## Tags

Alerting, Downtimes, Monitors

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