# Datadog Logs Metrics API

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

Datadog Logs Metrics 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 Log-Based Metrics, Logs, and Metrics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

The Logs Metrics API allows you to manage configuration of log-based metrics for your organization. It provides the ability to generate metrics from log data for cost-effective long-term analysis.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/logs-metrics/
- **Reference** — https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/log_configuration/logs_to_metrics/

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- [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 Downtimes API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-downtimes-api/)
- [Datadog RUM API](https://apis.io/apis/datadog/datadog-rum-api/)

## Tags

Log-Based Metrics, Logs, Metrics

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