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Datadog Rate Limits

Datadog v1/v2 API rate limits vary by endpoint. Common patterns shown.

Datadog Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Datadog on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring metrics_per_second, GB_per_minute, requests_per_minute, and requests_per_hour.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting and Observability.

6 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingObservability

Limits

Metrics intake org
metrics_per_second
default contract
Custom metric limits vary by contract; raise via support.
Log intake org
GB_per_minute
elastic
Log ingest scales with contract; throttling rare.
Read endpoints (default) org
requests_per_minute · minute
600
Logs query org
requests_per_minute · minute
300
Synthetics org
requests_per_minute · minute
60
Dashboards org
requests_per_hour · hour
60

Policies

Per-endpoint limits
Each endpoint has its own rate limit; check the Datadog API docs page for specifics.
Contact support to raise
Custom limits available via Datadog support for contracted customers.

Sources

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Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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Call it yourself

curl for this page
This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/datadog-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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