# Datadog

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/datadog/  
**Website:** https://www.datadoghq.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 290

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform that helps organizations gain insight into their infrastructure, applications, and services. It allows users to collect, visualize, and analyze real-time data from a variety of sources, including servers, databases, and cloud services. Datadog's platform enables companies to track performance metrics, troubleshoot issues, and optimize their systems for peak efficiency.

## Kin Score — 57.1 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.8 from 55.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 75.3 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 61.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 61.8 |
| Access Clarity | 61.8 |

## Agent readiness — 45.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (290)

- **Datadog Dashboards API** — The Dashboards API allows you to create, update, delete, and retrieve dashboards and dashboard lists. It also supports organizing, finding, and sharing dashboards with your team...
- **Datadog Synthetics API** — The Synthetics API allows you to manage API tests and browser tests programmatically. Datadog Synthetics uses simulated user requests and browser rendering to help ensure uptime...
- **Datadog Service Level Objectives API** — The Service Level Objectives API provides a framework for defining clear targets around application performance. SLOs help teams provide a consistent customer experience, balanc...
- **Datadog Security Monitoring API** — The Security Monitoring API allows you to create and manage security rules, signals, and filters. It provides programmatic access to Datadog Cloud SIEM capabilities for threat d...
- **Datadog Service Definition API** — The Service Definition API allows you to create, update, retrieve, and delete service definitions in the Datadog Service Catalog. It supports the v2.2 schema and earlier; for v3...
- **Datadog Software Catalog API** — The Software Catalog API allows you to create, update, retrieve, and delete Software Catalog entities using the v3.0 schema. It provides a unified catalog for tracking ownership...
- **Datadog Users API** — The Users API allows you to create, edit, and disable users within your Datadog organization. It supports role assignment and user management for access control purposes.
- **Datadog Roles API** — The Roles API is used to create and manage Datadog roles, the global permissions they grant, and which users belong to them. Roles provide role-based access control for Datadog ...
- **Datadog Key Management API** — The Key Management API allows you to manage your Datadog API and application keys. It provides endpoints to create, list, update, and delete both API keys and application keys f...
- **Datadog Organizations API** — The Organizations API allows you to create, edit, and manage your Datadog organizations. It supports multi-org account configurations where a parent organization manages one or ...
- **Datadog Downtimes API** — The Downtimes API gives you greater control over monitor notifications by allowing you to globally exclude scopes from alerting. Downtime settings can be scheduled with start an...
- **Datadog RUM API** — The RUM API allows you to manage Real User Monitoring applications and search or aggregate RUM events over HTTP. It provides access to session data, user interactions, and front...
- **Datadog APM Retention Filters API** — The APM Retention Filters API allows you to manage configuration of APM retention filters for your organization. Retention filters control which traces are indexed and retained ...
- **Datadog Usage Metering API** — The Usage Metering API allows you to get hourly, daily, and monthly usage across multiple facets of Datadog. It is available to all Pro and Enterprise customers, with usage data...
- **Datadog Spans API** — 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.
- **Datadog Processes API** — The Processes API allows you to query processes data for your organization. It provides access to live process information collected from hosts running the Datadog Agent.
- **Datadog Teams API** — The Teams API allows you to view and manage teams within Datadog. Teams can be associated with incidents, dashboards, and other resources to organize ownership and collaboration...
- **Datadog Workflow Automation API** — The Workflow Automation API allows you to automate end-to-end processes by connecting Datadog with the rest of your tech stack. It supports over 1,000 out-of-the-box actions inc...
- **Datadog Case Management API** — The Case Management API allows you to view and manage cases and projects within Datadog Case Management. Cases can be created from monitors, security signals, and other alert so...
- **Datadog Observability Pipelines API** — The Observability Pipelines API allows you to collect and process logs within your own infrastructure and route them to downstream integrations. It provides programmatic managem...
- **Datadog Sensitive Data Scanner API** — The Sensitive Data Scanner API allows you to create, update, delete, and retrieve sensitive data scanner groups and rules. It enables automated detection and redaction of sensit...
- **Datadog AWS Integration API** — The AWS Integration API allows you to configure your Datadog-AWS integration directly through the Datadog API. It supports managing AWS accounts, metrics collection, and log for...
- **Datadog GCP Integration API** — The GCP Integration API allows you to configure your Datadog-Google Cloud Platform integration directly through the Datadog API. It supports managing GCP projects, service accou...
- **Datadog CI Visibility Pipelines API** — The CI Visibility Pipelines API allows you to search or aggregate CI Visibility pipeline events and send them to your Datadog site over HTTP. It provides insight into the perfor...
- **Datadog Network Device Monitoring API** — The Network Device Monitoring API allows you to fetch devices and interfaces and their attributes. It provides programmatic access to network topology and performance data colle...
- **Datadog On-Call API** — The On-Call API allows you to configure and manage Datadog On-Call schedules, escalation policies, and teams. It also supports triggering and managing on-call pages directly thr...
- **Datadog DORA Metrics API** — The DORA Metrics API allows you to search and send events for DORA Metrics to measure and improve software delivery performance. It tracks deployment frequency, lead time for ch...
- **Datadog Cloud Cost Management API** — The Cloud Cost Management API allows you to set up, edit, and delete Cloud Cost Management accounts for AWS and Azure. Cost data can be queried using the Metrics endpoint with t...
- **Datadog Hosts API** — The Hosts API allows you to search for hosts by name, alias, or tag and retrieve host totals. Hosts live within the past 3 hours are included by default, with a retention of 7 d...
- **Datadog Tags API** — The Tags API allows you to assign tags to hosts, returning a mapping of tags to hosts for your entire infrastructure. Tags can be used to filter and group resources across Datadog.
- **Datadog Containers API** — The Containers API allows you to get all containers for your organization. It provides programmatic access to container data collected from hosts running the Datadog Agent.
- **Datadog Container Images API** — The Container Images API allows you to get all container images for your organization. It provides visibility into the container images running across your infrastructure.
- **Datadog Notebooks API** — The Notebooks API allows you to interact with Datadog Notebooks programmatically. Notebooks combine graphs and text in a linear, cell-based layout for exploring and sharing stor...
- **Datadog Dashboard Lists API** — The Dashboard Lists API allows you to interact with dashboard lists through the API to organize, find, and share all of your dashboards with your team and organization.
- **Datadog Logs Pipelines API** — The Logs Pipelines API allows you to manage pipelines and processors that operate on incoming logs, parsing and transforming them into structured attributes for easier querying.
- **Datadog Logs Indexes API** — The Logs Indexes API allows you to manage configuration of log indexes for your organization. Log indexes define how logs are filtered, aggregated, and stored for retention and ...
- **Datadog Logs Metrics API** — 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 ...
- **Datadog Logs Archives API** — The Logs Archives API allows you to manage logs archives that forward all ingested logs to cloud storage systems. It supports configuration of archive destinations and rehydrati...
- **Datadog Logs Custom Destinations API** — The Logs Custom Destinations API allows you to manage custom destinations that forward all ingested logs to external destinations such as Elasticsearch, Microsoft Sentinel, and ...
- **Datadog Logs Restriction Queries API** — The Logs Restriction Queries API allows you to manage restriction queries that control which logs the logs_read_data permission grants read access to, enabling fine-grained log ...
- …and 250 more, listed in full on the page.

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Datadog Agentic Access** — 558 operations · 324 acting · 4 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Datadog Authentication** — apiKey/http/oauth2 · 4 schemes
- **Datadog Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Datadog Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone
- **Datadog Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, CSA STAR

## Plans (1)

- **Datadog Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (8)

- **Full-Stack Observability** — Correlate metrics, traces, and logs across the entire application stack.
- **Container Monitoring** — Monitor Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration platforms.
- **Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring** — Monitor AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid cloud environments.
- **Application Performance Management** — Identify and resolve application bottlenecks with distributed tracing.
- **Log Analytics** — Centralize and analyze logs for troubleshooting and compliance.
- **Incident Management** — Automate incident detection, response, and resolution workflows.
- **DevOps Automation** — Integrate monitoring into CI/CD pipelines with API-driven workflows.
- **Security Posture Management** — Monitor cloud security misconfigurations and compliance violations.

## Tags

Analytics, Dashboards, Monitoring, Platform, T1, Visualizations

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