# Datadog Spans API

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

Datadog Spans 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 APM, Spans, and Tracing. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

The Spans API allows you to search and aggregate spans from your Datadog platform over HTTP. It supports querying distributed tracing data collected by Datadog APM.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/spans/
- **Reference** — https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/

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

## Tags

APM, Spans, Tracing

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