openapi: 3.0.0
info:
contact:
email: support@datadoghq.com
name: Datadog Support
url: https://www.datadoghq.com/support/
description: The Datadog API is an HTTP REST API. The API uses resource-oriented URLs to call the API, uses status codes to indicate the success or failure of requests, returns JSON from all requests, and uses standard HTTP response codes. Use the Datadog API to access the Datadog platform programmatically.
title: Datadog Account Metric Metadata API
version: '1.0'
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://{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:
- name: Metric Metadata
description: View and manage metric metadata and active metrics
paths:
/api/v1/metrics:
get:
operationId: listActiveMetrics
summary: Datadog List Active Metrics
description: Returns the list of actively reporting metric names for a given hour. Optionally filters by host and metric name prefix. Metrics are considered active if they reported at least one data point within the last 48 hours. Useful for metric discovery and auditing.
tags:
- Metric Metadata
parameters:
- name: from
in: query
required: true
description: POSIX timestamp (seconds) indicating the start of the time window to query active metrics
schema:
type: integer
format: int64
example: 42
- name: host
in: query
required: false
description: Filter metrics by the hostname that is actively reporting the metric
schema:
type: string
example: example_value
- name: tag_filter
in: query
required: false
description: Filter metrics by tag key or key:value pair (e.g., env:prod)
schema:
type: string
example: env:production
responses:
'200':
description: Successful response with list of active metrics
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricsListResponse'
'400':
description: Bad request - invalid or missing required parameters
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/APIErrorResponse'
'401':
description: Unauthorized - missing or invalid API key
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/APIErrorResponse'
'403':
description: Forbidden - insufficient permissions for this operation
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/APIErrorResponse'
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
schemas:
MetricsListResponse:
type: object
description: Response containing the list of active metric names
properties:
from:
type: string
description: The start time of the active metrics query window as a Unix timestamp string
example: example_value
metrics:
type: array
description: The list of active metric names for the specified time window
items:
type: string
APIErrorResponse:
type: object
description: Standard API error response returned for failed requests
required:
- errors
properties:
errors:
type: array
description: List of error messages describing the failure
items:
type: string
securitySchemes:
AuthZ:
description: This API uses OAuth 2 with the implicit grant flow.
flows:
authorizationCode:
authorizationUrl: /oauth2/v1/authorize
scopes:
apm_api_catalog_read: View API catalog and API definitions.
apm_api_catalog_write: Add, modify, and delete API catalog definitions.
apm_read: Read and query APM and Trace Analytics.
apm_service_catalog_read: View service catalog and service definitions.
apm_service_catalog_write: Add, modify, and delete service catalog definitions when those definitions are maintained by Datadog.
appsec_vm_read: View infrastructure, application code, and library vulnerabilities. This does not restrict API or inventory SQL access to the vulnerability data source.
cases_read: View Cases.
cases_write: Create and update cases.
ci_visibility_pipelines_write: Create CI Visibility pipeline spans using the API.
ci_visibility_read: View CI Visibility.
cloud_cost_management_read: View Cloud Cost pages and the cloud cost data source in dashboards and notebooks. For more details, see the Cloud Cost Management docs.
cloud_cost_management_write: Configure cloud cost accounts and global customizations. For more details, see the Cloud Cost Management docs.
code_analysis_read: View Code Analysis.
continuous_profiler_pgo_read: Read and query Continuous Profiler data for Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO).
create_webhooks: Create webhooks integrations.
dashboards_embed_share: Create, modify, and delete shared dashboards with share type 'embed'.
dashboards_invite_share: Create, modify, and delete shared dashboards with share type 'invite'.
dashboards_public_share: Generate public and authenticated links to share dashboards or embeddable graphs externally.
dashboards_read: View dashboards.
dashboards_write: Create and change dashboards.
data_scanner_read: View Data Scanner configurations.
data_scanner_write: Edit Data Scanner configurations.
embeddable_graphs_share: Generate public links to share embeddable graphs externally.
events_read: Read Events data.
hosts_read: List hosts and their attributes.
incident_notification_settings_write: Configure Incidents Notification settings.
incident_read: View incidents in Datadog.
incident_settings_write: Configure Incident Settings.
incident_write: Create, view, and manage incidents in Datadog.
metrics_read: View custom metrics.
monitor_config_policy_write: Edit and delete monitor configuration.
monitors_downtime: Set downtimes to suppress alerts from any monitor in an organization. Mute and unmute monitors. The ability to write monitors is not required to set downtimes.
monitors_read: View monitors.
monitors_write: Edit, delete, and resolve individual monitors.
org_management: Edit org configurations, including authentication and certain security preferences such as configuring SAML, renaming an org, configuring allowed login methods, creating child orgs, subscribing & unsubscribing from apps in the marketplace, and enabling & disabling Remote Configuration for the entire organization.
security_comments_read: Read comments of vulnerabilities.
security_monitoring_filters_read: Read Security Filters.
security_monitoring_filters_write: Create, edit, and delete Security Filters.
security_monitoring_findings_read: View a list of findings that include both misconfigurations and identity risks.
security_monitoring_notification_profiles_read: View Rule Security Notification rules.
security_monitoring_notification_profiles_write: Create, edit, and delete Security Notification rules.
security_monitoring_rules_read: Read Detection Rules.
security_monitoring_rules_write: Create and edit Detection Rules.
security_monitoring_signals_read: View Security Signals.
security_monitoring_suppressions_read: Read Rule Suppressions.
security_monitoring_suppressions_write: Write Rule Suppressions.
security_pipelines_read: View Security Pipelines.
security_pipelines_write: Create, edit, and delete CSM Security Pipelines.
slos_corrections: Apply, edit, and delete SLO status corrections. A user with this permission can make status corrections, even if they do not have permission to edit those SLOs.
slos_read: View SLOs and status corrections.
slos_write: Create, edit, and delete SLOs.
synthetics_global_variable_read: View, search, and use Synthetics global variables.
synthetics_global_variable_write: Create, edit, and delete global variables for Synthetics.
synthetics_private_location_read: View, search, and use Synthetics private locations.
synthetics_private_location_write: Create and delete private locations in addition to having access to the associated installation guidelines.
synthetics_read: List and view configured Synthetic tests and test results.
synthetics_write: Create, edit, and delete Synthetic tests.
teams_manage: Manage Teams. Create, delete, rename, and edit metadata of all Teams. To control Team membership across all Teams, use the User Access Manage permission.
teams_read: Read Teams data. A User with this permission can view Team names, metadata, and which Users are on each Team.
test_optimization_read: View Test Optimization.
timeseries_query: Query Timeseries data.
usage_read: View your organization's usage and usage attribution.
user_access_invite: Invite other users to your organization.
user_access_manage: Disable users, manage user roles, manage SAML-to-role mappings, and configure logs restriction queries.
user_access_read: View users and their roles and settings.
workflows_read: View workflows.
workflows_run: Run workflows.
workflows_write: Create, edit, and delete workflows.
tokenUrl: /oauth2/v1/token
type: oauth2
apiKeyAuth:
description: Your Datadog API Key.
in: header
name: DD-API-KEY
type: apiKey
x-env-name: DD_API_KEY
appKeyAuth:
description: Your Datadog APP Key.
in: header
name: DD-APPLICATION-KEY
type: apiKey
x-env-name: DD_APP_KEY
bearerAuth:
scheme: bearer
type: http
x-env-name: DD_BEARER_TOKEN
x-group-parameters: true
x-merge-override:
paths: false