Datadog APM Spans Metrics API
Create, read, update and delete span-based metric definitions — a compute over a span attribute, a filter query and group-by tags. Five operations.
Datadog APM Spans Metrics API is one of 8 APIs that Datadog APM publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Spans Metrics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 5 operations across 2 paths, and defines 22 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 3 base URLs: https://{subdomain}.{site}, {protocol}://{name}, https://{subdomain}.{site}.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 4
Datadog APM Spans Metrics API declares
4 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (AuthZ) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 96 scopes.
An API key is passed in the header as DD-API-KEY (apiKeyAuth).
An API key is passed in the header as DD-APPLICATION-KEY (appKeyAuth).
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
AuthZ— This API uses OAuth 2 with the implicit grant flow.apiKeyAuth— Your Datadog API Key.appKeyAuth— Your Datadog APP Key.
Paths & Operations 5
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 PATCH, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Manage configuration of [span-based metrics](https://app.datadoghq.com/apm/traces/generate-metrics) for your organization. See [Generate Metrics from Spans](https://docs.datadoghq…
Schemas 22
The contract defines 22 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SpansMetricUpdateAttributes (3 properties), SpansMetricCreateAttributes (3 properties), SpansMetricCreateData (3 properties), SpansMetricResponseData (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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