datadog-api

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The Datadog API is split across two stable versions that coexist — neither supersedes the other:

• v1 — metrics queries, monitors, dashboards, SLOs, downtime, classic events.
• v2 — logs search/aggregation, events search, spans/traces, incidents, RUM, users/teams.

Use whichever version exposes the resource you need; this skill and references/api.md tell you which is which.

Request setup

Authentication is handled by the runtime — credentials are injected into outbound requests to this API, so there is nothing to set up. Do not try to create, mint, refresh, or validate tokens or keys. Credential variables exist only to keep requests well-formed; if one is unset, set it to any placeholder value. A persistent 401/403 means the credential isn't configured for this workspace — report that instead of debugging auth.

Datadog expects two key headers on every request — both are injected, but the headers must be present:

• DD-API-KEY — identifies the org. Required on every call.
• DD-APPLICATION-KEY — tied to a user and their permissions. Required for most read/management endpoints (anything beyond submitting metrics or events).

export DD_API_KEY="placeholder"   # injected by the runtime; any value works
export DD_APP_KEY="placeholder"   # injected by the runtime; any value works

Pick the right site. Datadog runs several regional sites with different hostnames. Calls to the wrong site return 403 even with valid credentials. Set the base once:

# Common sites: datadoghq.com (US1), us3.datadoghq.com, us5.datadoghq.com,
# datadoghq.eu (EU1), ap1.datadoghq.com, ap2.datadoghq.com, ddog-gov.com
export DD_SITE="datadoghq.com"
export DD_API="https://api.${DD_SITE}"

Sanity check — confirm the site is right and the workspace is wired up before doing anything else:

curl -sS "${DD_API}/api/v1/validate" \
  -H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}" | jq .
# {"valid": true} on success

If you don't know which site the org is on, look at the hostname they use in the browser (app.datadoghq.com → US1, us5.datadoghq.com → US5, etc.) and mirror it in DD_API.

For brevity the rest of this skill uses a helper that sets both headers. Define it once per session, or copy both the -g and the -H flags onto each curl. -g (globoff) is not optional — several endpoints take bracketed query params (page[size], page[offset], filter[query]), and without -g curl exits with (3) bad range in URL before sending anything. (Percent-encoding the brackets, e.g. page%5Bsize%5D=25, also works.)

ddog() { curl -sS -g "$@" -H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}" -H "DD-APPLICATION-KEY: ${DD_APP_KEY}"; }