Datadog APM

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
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  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
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  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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
- 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: '2026-09-05'
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-retention-filters-api
  name: Datadog APM Retention Filters API
  description: Manage the ordered list of retention filters that decide which spans Datadog indexes and for how long. Six
    operations including a whole-list reorder. The highest-consequence write surface in Datadog APM — a deleted filter loses
    observability data that cannot be recovered.
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/apm-retention-filters/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - APM Retention Filters
  properties:
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  - type: Overlay
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/apm-retention-filters/
- aid: datadog-apm:datadog-apm-services-api
  name: Datadog APM Services API
  description: List the APM services observed in an environment. One operation, GET /api/v2/apm/services, whose filter[env]
    parameter became mandatory in the 2026-02-17 release.
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/apm/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - APM
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datadog-apm-services-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/datadog-apm-services-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/apm/
- aid: datadog-apm:datadog-apm-service-definitions-api
  name: Datadog APM Service Definitions API
  description: Read and upsert service catalog definitions — the declarative service.datadog.yaml documents carrying ownership,
    contacts, links and integrations. Four operations across four coexisting schema versions (v1, v2, v2.1, v2.2).
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/service-definition/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - Service Definition
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datadog-apm-service-definitions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/datadog-apm-service-definitions-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/service-definition/
- aid: datadog-apm:datadog-apm-slos-api
  name: Datadog APM Service Level Objectives API
  description: Create, search, read, update and delete Service Level Objectives, read SLI history, and check whether an SLO
    can be deleted before deleting it. Ten operations on Datadog API v1.
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/service-level-objectives/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - SLO
  tags_raw:
  - Service Level Objectives
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  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/datadog-apm-slos-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/service-level-objectives/
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/datadog-apm-manage-slos.md
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  name: Datadog APM SLO Corrections API
  description: Manage time-boxed corrections that exclude a window from an SLO error budget, optionally recurring by rrule.
    Five operations, and the only genuinely reversible write in the APM surface.
  humanURL: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/service-level-objective-corrections/
  baseURL: https://api.datadoghq.com
  tags:
  - SLO
  tags_raw:
  - Service Level Objective Corrections
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    url: openapi/datadog-apm-slo-corrections-api-openapi.yml
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  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/service-level-objective-corrections/
- 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/
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- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/
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- type: TermsOfService
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- type: PrivacyPolicy
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- type: Postman
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- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.datadoghq.com/product/platform/integrations/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/datadog-apm-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/datadog-apm-scopes.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/datadog-apm-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/datadog-apm-packages.yml
- type: CLI
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- type: MCPServer
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- type: Conventions
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- type: ErrorCatalog
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- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/datadog-apm-webhooks.yml
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/datadog-apm-tracer_payload.proto
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/datadog-apm-span.proto
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/datadog-apm-stats.proto
- type: Protobuf
  url: grpc/datadog-apm-agent_payload.proto
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/datadog-apm-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/datadog-apm-plans-pricing.yml
- type: FinOps
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- type: TrustCenter
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  url: security/datadog-apm-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
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- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/datadog-apm-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/datadog-apm-llms.txt
- type: LlmsText
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- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/trace.yml
- type: JSONLD
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- type: Vocabulary
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- type: Rules
  url: rules/datadog-apm-rules.yml
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- name: Active Directory
- name: ActiveMQ
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- name: Adaptive Shield
- name: Adobe Experience Manager
- name: Adyen
- name: Aerospike
- name: Aerospike Enterprise
- name: Agent Metrics
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- name: AIMon
- name: Airbrake
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- name: Airflow
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- name: Akamai DataStream 2
- name: Akamai mPulse
- name: Akamai Zero Trust
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- name: Akeyless Gateway
- name: Alcide
- name: AlertNow
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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