Class MetricsApi

Create and define a list of queryable tag keys for a set of existing count, gauge, rate, and distribution metrics. Metrics are selected by passing a metric name prefix. Use the Delete method of this API path to remove tag configurations. Results can be sent to a set of account email addresses, just like the same operation in the Datadog web app. If multiple calls include the same metric, the last configuration applied (not by submit order) is used, do not expect deterministic ordering of concurrent calls. The exclude_tags_mode value will set all metrics that match the prefix to the same exclusion state, metric tag configurations do not support mixed inclusion and exclusion for tags on the same metric. Can only be used with application keys of users with the Manage Tags for Metrics permission.

Create and define a list of queryable tag keys for an existing count/gauge/rate/distribution metric. Optionally, include percentile aggregations on any distribution metric or configure custom aggregations on any count, rate, or gauge metric. By setting exclude_tags_mode to true the behavior is changed from an allow-list to a deny-list, and tags in the defined list will not be queryable. Can only be used with application keys of users with the Manage Tags for Metrics permission.

Delete all custom lists of queryable tag keys for a set of existing count, gauge, rate, and distribution metrics. Metrics are selected by passing a metric name prefix. Results can be sent to a set of account email addresses, just like the same operation in the Datadog web app. Can only be used with application keys of users with the Manage Tags for Metrics permission.

Deletes a metric's tag configuration. Can only be used with application keys from users with the Manage Tags for Metrics permission.

Returns the estimated cardinality for a metric with a given tag, percentile and number of aggregations configuration using Metrics without Limits™.

List tags and aggregations that are actively queried on dashboards, notebooks, monitors, and the Metrics Explorer for a given metric name.

Returns dashboards, monitors, notebooks, and SLOs that a metric is stored in, if any. Updated every 24 hours.

Returns the tag configuration for the given metric name.

Returns all metrics that can be configured in the Metrics Summary page or with Metrics without Limits™ (matching additional filters if specified).

View indexed tag key-value pairs for a given metric name over the previous hour.

View distinct metrics volumes for the given metric name.

Custom metrics generated in-app from other products will return null for ingested volumes.

Query scalar values (as seen on Query Value, Table, and Toplist widgets). Multiple data sources are supported with the ability to process the data using formulas and functions.

Query timeseries data across various data sources and process the data by applying formulas and functions.

The metrics end-point allows you to post time-series data that can be graphed on Datadog’s dashboards. The maximum payload size is 500 kilobytes (512000 bytes). Compressed payloads must have a decompressed size of less than 5 megabytes (5242880 bytes).

If you’re submitting metrics directly to the Datadog API without using DogStatsD, expect:

• 64 bits for the timestamp
• 64 bits for the value
• 20 bytes for the metric names
• 50 bytes for the timeseries
• The full payload is approximately 100 bytes.

Host name is one of the resources in the Resources field.

Update the tag configuration of a metric or percentile aggregations of a distribution metric or custom aggregations of a count, rate, or gauge metric. By setting exclude_tags_mode to true the behavior is changed from an allow-list to a deny-list, and tags in the defined list will not be queryable. Can only be used with application keys from users with the Manage Tags for Metrics permission. This endpoint requires a tag configuration to be created first.