Datadog Logs API

Search your logs and send them to your Datadog platform over HTTP. See the [Log Management page](https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/) for more information.

Business capability
Observability Management BC-4220.20

Operations 2

POST /api/v2/logs Datadog Send Logs #
POST /api/v2/logs/events/search Datadog Search Logs (post) #

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datadog-logs-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Datadog Logs API
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged Logs across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: datadog-api-openapi.yml, datadog-logs-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
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
      - datadoghq.eu
      - ddog-gov.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://api.datadoghq.com
  description: Datadog API Production Server
tags:


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