Datadog APM

Datadog APM provides end-to-end distributed tracing, continuous profiling, and real-time performance monitoring for applications and microservices. It automatically instruments applications to provide deep visibility into request traces, latency, and error rates across distributed systems.

Datadog APM publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Spans API, Spans Metrics API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include APM, Distributed Tracing, Microservices, Observability, and Performance Monitoring.

The Datadog APM catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Datadog APM’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 50 more developer resources.

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2 published contracts 1 MCP Servers 7 Agent Skills

APM Distributed Tracing Microservices Observability Performance Monitoring Spans SLO Service Catalog OpenTelemetry MCP

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

SaaS Platform Operations Management

BC-4220

APMAPM Retention FiltersService Level Objective CorrectionsService Level ObjectivesSpansSpans Metrics

GET /api/v1/slo POST /api/v1/slo GET /api/v1/slo/{slo_id} GET /api/v1/slo/{slo_id}/history

What people ask Datadog APM 7

The questions people put to an LLM, and the jobs they hand an agent, that Datadog APM's APIs answer — each one linked to the operation that does it. Generated by API Evangelist

Datadog APM Service Level Objectives API List SLOs with filters “Which SLOs in our org carry a particular tag?” Create a service level objective “How do I set up a 99.9% availability SLO over 30 days?” Bulk delete SLO thresholds by timeframe “Can I drop just the 7-day threshold from several SLOs at once?” Check whether SLOs can be safely deleted “Is an SLO still used on a dashboard before I delete it?”

Datadog APM Retention Filters API List APM retention filters “Which retention filters decide what spans get indexed in my Datadog org?” Create a span retention filter “How do I start indexing a specific slice of my spans with a new retention filter?” Change the execution order of retention filters “Can I change the order in which my retention filters are evaluated?” Delete a span retention filter “How do I stop a retention filter from indexing spans by removing it?”

Datadog APM Service Level Objective Corrections API List all SLO corrections “What SLO corrections exist across our whole Datadog org?” Create an SLO correction window “How do I exclude a maintenance window from my SLO calculations?” Delete an SLO correction “How do I permanently remove a correction so that downtime counts against the SLO again?” Get one SLO correction “What time window and category does a specific SLO correction cover?”

Datadog APM Spans Metrics API List span-based metrics “Which custom metrics have we generated from our ingested spans?” Create a metric from ingested spans “How do I turn span data into a long-lived metric?” Delete a span-based metric “How do I stop generating a metric from spans?” Get one span-based metric “What filter and group-bys does a particular span-based metric use?”

Datadog APM Service Definition API List Service Catalog definitions “What services are registered in our Datadog Service Catalog?” Create or update a service definition “How do I register a new service in the Service Catalog?” Delete a service definition “How do I remove a retired service from the Service Catalog?” Get one service's catalog definition “Who owns a given service according to the Service Catalog?”

Datadog APM Spans API Aggregate spans into metrics and timeseries “Can I compute p95 latency per service from my spans over a time range?” List recent spans matching a query “What are the latest spans for a service in the last 15 minutes?” Search spans with a complex filter body “How do I run an advanced span search with a full filter object in the request body?”

Datadog APM API List APM services in an environment “Which services is Datadog APM seeing in my production environment?”

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 82.0/100 · exemplar

Contract Quality 12.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 12.0 / 15

Access Clarity 15.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 8.2 / 10

Contract Governance 4.1 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 6.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
Pagination +5 pts — share of collection GETs (an array, or one wrapped in data/items/results ...) that declare a page/limit/offset/cursor parameter, a Link header or a next/cursor field; na with no collection GETs
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's

3 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 64.2 — up to +9.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 45.5 — up to +6.5 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 80.2 — up to +4.0 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
AI Agent Tools (MCP servers, A2A agents)	undeclared	-	-	-
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 5

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Datadog APM Spans API

Search, list and aggregate APM spans. Three operations covering cursor-paginated span search (POST and GET forms) and a span analytics aggregation that returns single numbers, s...

Datadog APM Spans Metrics API

Create, read, update and delete span-based metric definitions — a compute over a span attribute, a filter query and group-by tags. Five operations.

Datadog MCP Server

Datadog's first-party remote Model Context Protocol server. OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration; a dedicated apm toolset covering span search, trace queries, Wat...

Datadog APM API

Observe, troubleshoot, and improve cloud-scale applications with all telemetry in context

Datadog APM Retention Filters API

Manage configuration of [APM retention filters](https://app.datadoghq.com/apm/traces/retention-filters) for your organization. You need an API and application key with Admin rig...

Datadog APM Service Definition API

API to create, update, retrieve and delete service definitions. Note: Service Catalog [v3.0 schema](https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_catalog/service_definitions/v3-0/) has new...

Datadog APM Service Level Objective Corrections API

SLO Status Corrections allow you to prevent specific time periods from negatively impacting your SLO’s status and error budget. You can use Status Corrections for various purpos...

Datadog APM Service Level Objectives API

[Service Level Objectives](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/service_level_objectives/#configuration) (or SLOs) are a key part of the site reliability engineering toolkit. SLO...

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Datadog MCP Server

Datadog operates a first-party remote MCP server that bridges AI agents to Datadog observability data. It is not APM-specific — it exposes most Datadog products — but it ships a...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 7

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

datadog-app

AGENT SKILL

ddconfig

AGENT SKILL

ddsetup

AGENT SKILL

ddtoolsets

AGENT SKILL

ddviz

AGENT SKILL

datadog-apm-manage-slos

AGENT SKILL

datadog-apm-search-spans

AGENT SKILL

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Datadog APM API pricing

Prices published by Datadog APM, read 2026-10-28 from www.datadoghq.com/pricing/.

Plan	Price
AI Credits	Starting At $500 Per 500 credits, per month* per 500 credits Includes: 500 credits
Code Coverage	Starting At $8 Per committer, per month* per committer
Log Management — Ingest	Starting At $0.10 Per ingested or scanned GB, per month* per ingested or scanned GB
Log Management — Standard Indexing (15-day retention)	$1.70 Per million log events, per month* per million log events Includes: 15-day retention
Flex Storage	Starting At $0.05 Per million events stored, per month* per million events stored Includes: Minimum retention of 1 month up to 15 months
Flex Logs Starter	Starting At $0.60 Per million events stored, per month* per million events stored Includes: Bundled Starter Compute for log volumes below 2B per month (10B total stored)
Flex Compute	Contact Us for Pricing per instance-hour
Log Forwarding to Custom Destinations	Starting At $0.25 Per GB outbound, per destination, per month* per GB outbound per destina

All 15 plans, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Event submission: 250000 events per minute
Datadog MCP Server tool call burst: 50 requests per 10 seconds
Datadog MCP Server monthly tool calls: 100000 tool calls per month

Rate-limit details →

Billed by: host · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Datadog Apm Plans Pricing

15 plans

PLANS

Datadog Apm Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Datadog Apm Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Datadog APM

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Datadog Apm Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Datadog Apm Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Datadog Apm Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Datadog APM — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Datadog APM API Rules

5 rules · 1 errors 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 14

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Datadog Apm Apm Api Phrasing Overlay

2 actions · phrasing · datadog-apm-apm-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Datadog Apm Apm Retention Filters Api Phrasing Overlay

7 actions · phrasing · datadog-apm-apm-retention-filters-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Datadog Apm Retention Filters Overlay

3 actions · update · datadog-apm-retention-filters-api-openapi.yml

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Datadog Apm Service Definition Api Phrasing Overlay

5 actions · phrasing · datadog-apm-service-definition-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Datadog Apm Service Definitions Overlay

3 actions · update · datadog-apm-service-definitions-api-openapi.yml

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Datadog Apm Service Level Objective Corrections Api Phrasing Overlay

6 actions · phrasing · datadog-apm-service-level-objective-corrections-api-openapi.yml

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Datadog Apm Service Level Objectives Api Phrasing Overlay

11 actions · phrasing · datadog-apm-service-level-objectives-api-openapi.yml

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Datadog Apm Services Overlay

3 actions · update · datadog-apm-services-api-openapi.yml

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Datadog Apm Slo Corrections Overlay

3 actions · update · datadog-apm-slo-corrections-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Datadog Apm Slos Overlay

3 actions · update · datadog-apm-slos-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Datadog Apm Spans Api Phrasing Overlay

4 actions · phrasing · datadog-apm-spans-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Datadog Apm Spans Metrics Api Phrasing Overlay

6 actions · phrasing · datadog-apm-spans-metrics-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Datadog Apm Spans Metrics Overlay

3 actions · update · datadog-apm-spans-metrics-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Datadog Apm Spans Overlay

3 actions · update · datadog-apm-spans-api-openapi.yml

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Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Datadog Apm Authentication

apiKey/http/oauth2 · 6 schemes

SECURITY

Datadog Apm Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Datadog Apm Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone

SECURITY

Datadog Apm Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, CSA STAR

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Datadog Apm Scopes

96 scopes · authorizationCode

96 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 6

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

MCPServer

AgentSkill

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LlmsText

Design & Contract 9

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Webhooks

JSONLD

Vocabulary

Rules

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Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Postman

Packages

SDKs

CLI

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 8

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

OAuthScopes

SecurityTxt

Compliance

TrustCenter

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

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Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 10

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Overlay

Protobuf

Protobuf

Protobuf

Protobuf

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: datadog-apm
name: Datadog APM
description: Datadog APM provides end-to-end distributed tracing, continuous profiling, and real-time performance monitoring
  for applications and microservices. It automatically instruments applications to provide deep visibility into request traces,
  latency, and error rates across distributed systems.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/datadog-apm.png
tags:
- APM
- Distributed Tracing
- Microservices
- Observability
- Performance Monitoring
- Spans
- SLO
- Service Catalog
- OpenTelemetry
- MCP
tags_raw:
- APM
- Distributed Tracing
- Microservices
- Observability
- Performance Monitoring
- Spans
- Service Level Objectives
- Service Catalog
- OpenTelemetry
- MCP
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/datadog-apm/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
kind: company
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
apis:
- aid: datadog-apm:datadog-apm-spans-api
  name: Datadog APM Spans API
  description: Search, list and aggregate APM spans. Three operations covering cursor-paginated span search (POST and GET
    forms) and a span analytics aggregation that returns single numbers, single strings or timeseries buckets.
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/spans/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - Spans
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datadog-apm-spans-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/datadog-apm-spans-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/spans/
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/datadog-apm-search-spans.md
- aid: datadog-apm:datadog-apm-spans-metrics-api
  name: Datadog APM Spans Metrics API
  description: Create, read, update and delete span-based metric definitions — a compute over a span attribute, a filter query
    and group-by tags. Five operations.
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/spans-metrics/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - Spans Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datadog-apm-spans-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/datadog-apm-spans-metrics-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/spans-metrics/
- aid: datadog-apm:datadog-apm-mcp-server
  name: Datadog MCP Server
  description: Datadog's first-party remote Model Context Protocol server. OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration;
    a dedicated apm toolset covering span search, trace queries, Watchdog anomaly stories, latency-bottleneck analysis and
    APM recommendations. An anonymous tools/list returns HTTP 401, so the live schemas are auth-gated.
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/bits_ai/mcp_server/
  baseURL: https://mcp.datadoghq.com/api/unstable/mcp-server/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/datadog-apm-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/datadog-apm-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/mcp_server/tools/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/mcp_server/setup/
- aid: datadog-apm:datadog-apm-apm-api
  name: Datadog APM API
  description: Observe, troubleshoot, and improve cloud-scale applications with all telemetry in context
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/spans/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - APM
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datadog-apm-apm-api-openapi.yml
- aid: datadog-apm:datadog-apm-apm-retention-filters-api
  name: Datadog APM Retention Filters API
  description: Manage configuration of [APM retention filters](https://app.datadoghq.com/apm/traces/retention-filters) for
    your organization. You need an API and application key with Admin rights to interact with this endpoint. See [retention
    filters](https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/trace_pipeline/trace_retention/#retention-filters) on the Trace Retention
    page for more information.
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/spans/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - APM Retention Filters
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datadog-apm-apm-retention-filters-api-openapi.yml
- aid: datadog-apm:datadog-apm-service-definition-api
  name: Datadog APM Service Definition API
  description: 'API to create, update, retrieve and delete service definitions.

    Note: Service Catalog [v3.0 schema](https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_catalog/service_definitions/v3-0/) has new API
    endpoints documented under [Software Catalog](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/software-catalog/). Use the following
    Service Definition endpoints for v2.2 and earlier.'
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/spans/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - Service Definition
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datadog-apm-service-definition-api-openapi.yml
- aid: datadog-apm:datadog-apm-service-level-objective-corrections-api
  name: Datadog APM Service Level Objective Corrections API
  description: 'SLO Status Corrections allow you to prevent specific time periods from negatively impacting

    your SLO’s status and error budget. You can use Status Corrections for various purposes, such

    as removing planned maintenance windows, non-business hours, or other time periods that do

    not correspond to genuine issues. See [SLO status corrections](https://docs.datadoghq.com/service_management/service_level_objectives/#slo-status-corrections)
    for more information.'
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/spans/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - Service Level Objective Corrections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datadog-apm-service-level-objective-corrections-api-openapi.yml
- aid: datadog-apm:datadog-apm-service-level-objectives-api
  name: Datadog APM Service Level Objectives API
  description: '[Service Level Objectives](https://docs.datadoghq.com/monitors/service_level_objectives/#configuration)

    (or SLOs) are a key part of the site reliability engineering toolkit.

    SLOs provide a framework for defining clear targets around application performance,

    which ultimately help teams provide a consistent customer experience,

    balance feature development with platform stability,

    and improve communication with internal and external users.'
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/spans/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - SLO
  tags_raw:
  - Service Level Objectives
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datadog-apm-service-level-objectives-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/datadog-apm-capability-edges.yml
  name: Datadog APM Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/datadog-apm-retention-filters-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/datadog-apm-services-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/datadog-apm-service-definitions-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/datadog-apm-slos-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/datadog-apm-manage-slos.md
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/datadog-apm-slo-corrections-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.datadoghq.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/
- type: Documentation
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Datadog APM API — frequently asked questions

Does Datadog APM have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Datadog APM, including Datadog APM Spans API, Datadog APM Spans Metrics API and Datadog MCP Server, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Datadog APM API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for Datadog APM, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Datadog APM API?

Datadog APM documents its authentication (apiKey/http/oauth2 · 6 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Datadog Apm Authentication.

How much does the Datadog APM API cost?

Datadog APM publishes its prices; its AI Credits plan is Starting At $500 Per 500 credits, per month* per 500 credits as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 15 pricing plans for Datadog APM, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Datadog APM have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Datadog APM: Datadog operates a first-party remote MCP server that bridges AI agents to Datadog observability data. It is not APM-specific — it exposes most Datadog products — but it ships a dedicated `apm` toolse

Is the Datadog APM API ready for AI agents?

Datadog APM has a Kin Score of 82.0 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 55.0 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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