# Datadog API

**Provider:** Datadog
**Category:** developer
**Base URL:** `https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2`
**Auth:** api-key — `DD-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY
DD-APPLICATION-KEY: YOUR_APP_KEY`
**Rate Limit:** 300 requests/hour (metrics submission) · 3,600 requests/hour (queries)
**Free Tier:** No
**Pricing:** Free tier available (freemium)
**Docs:** https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/latest/

## Description

Datadog provides full-stack observability and the API exposes all of its platform capabilities. Submit custom metrics and traces, query logs and events, create and manage monitors (alerts), build dashboards programmatically, manage incidents and on-call schedules, list hosts and containers, and configure integrations. Essential for infra-as-code and automated operations workflows.

## Endpoints

| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|--------|----------|-------------|
| POST | `https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/series` | Submit custom metrics in bulk |
| POST | `https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/logs/events` | Send log events to Datadog |
| GET | `https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/monitors` | List all monitors with status |
| POST | `https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/monitors` | Create a new alert monitor |
| GET | `https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/dashboards` | List all dashboards |
| GET | `https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/incidents` | List incidents with filtering |

## Authentication

Pass your API key in the DD-API-KEY header. For write operations, also include an Application Key in DD-APPLICATION-KEY.

```
DD-API-KEY: YOUR_API_KEY
DD-APPLICATION-KEY: YOUR_APP_KEY
```

## Sample Request

```bash
curl "https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/series" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: $DD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"series":[{"metric":"app.requests","points":[[1704067200,42]],"type":1,"tags":["env:prod"]}]}'
```

## Sample Response

```json
{
  "errors": []
}
```

## Pricing Details

Infrastructure Starter: free (5 hosts). Pro: $15/host/mo. Enterprise: $23/host/mo. APM: $31/host/mo. Log Management from $0.10/GB.

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*Source: [API Map](https://apimap.dev/apis/datadog/) — CC BY 4.0*