Using the API

Use the Datadog HTTP API to access the Datadog platform programmatically. You can use the API to send data to Datadog, build data visualizations, and manage your account.

Send data to Datadog

Use the API to begin to send integrations data to Datadog. With some additional setup of the Agent, you can also use the API to send Synthetic test data, Logs, and Traces to Datadog.

Integrations endpoints

Available integrations endpoints:

Platform endpoints

Use these endpoints to post and fetch data to and from other parts of the Datadog platform:

The metrics endpoints allow you to post metrics data so it can be graphed on Datadog’s dashboards and query metrics from any time period.
The events endpoints allow you to post and fetch events to and from the Datadog event explorer.
Use the Synthetic Monitoring endpoints to create, start, stop, and see Synthetic tests results.
Use the Tracing Agent API to send traces to your Datadog Agent, which then forwards them to Datadog.

Visualize your data

Once you are sending data to Datadog, you can use the API to build data visualizations programmatically:

Build Dashboards and view Dashboard Lists
Manage host tags
Create Embeddable Graphs
Take a graph snapshot
Service Dependencies - see a list of your APM services and their dependencies
Create Monitors
Service Checks - post check statuses for use with monitors
Create and manage Logs, Logs Indexes, and Logs Pipelines
Get Host information for your organization
Create and manage Service Level Objectives
Generate Security Monitoring signals

Manage your account

You can also use the Datadog API to manage your account programmatically:

Manage Users
Manage Roles
Manage your Organization
Verify API and app keys with the Authentication endpoint
Grant specific logs access with the Logs Restriction Queries
Manage existing keys with Key Management
Get hourly, daily, and monthly usage across multiple facets of Datadog with the Usage Metering endpoints
See the list of IP prefixes belonging to Datadog with IP Ranges