Migrating from the V1 Hourly Usage APIs to V2

Summary

On February 1, 2025, the individual hourly usage by product endpoints will be deprecated in favor of the v2 hourly usage by product family API.

Users of the v1 APIs should recognize familiar concepts in the consolidated v2 hourly usage API, just represented in a slightly different format.

The most notable differences between the v1 API and the v2 API are that the v2 API:

  • Consolidates all products to one endpoint
  • Follows the JSON:API standard
  • Is paginated
  • Can return data for multiple organizations and regions per request

Each difference is discussed in further detail in the following sections.

Consolidated Product Families

The v2 API introduces the concepts of product family and usage type. Product families are groupings of one or more usage types. Usage types are usage measurements for a given organization and time period. The all product family retrieves the usage for all product families or you can filter by specific product families.

This list below shows how the product families and usage types map to the v1 hourly usage endpoints. Usage type and datapoint are the same, except where explicitly noted:

ENDPOINT | PRODUCT FAMILY
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/hosts | infra_hosts
agent_host_count
alibaba_host_count
apm_azure_app_service_host_count
apm_host_count
aws_host_count
azure_host_count
container_count
gcp_host_count
heroku_host_count
host_count
infra_azure_app_service
opentelemetry_host_count
vsphere_host_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/logs | logs
billable_ingested_bytes
indexed_events_count
ingested_events_bytes
logs_live_indexed_count
logs_live_ingested_bytes
logs_rehydrated_indexed_count
logs_rehydrated_ingested_bytes
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/timeseries | timeseries
num_custom_input_timeseries
num_custom_output_timeseries
num_custom_timeseries
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/indexed-spans | indexed_spans
indexed_events_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/synthetics
Deprecated. See synthetics_api and synthetics_browser for synthetics usage
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/synthetics_api | synthetics_api
check_calls_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/synthetics_browser | synthetics_browser
browser_check_calls_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/fargate | fargate
avg_profiled_fargate_tasks
tasks_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/aws_lambda | serverless
func_count
invocations_sum
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/rum_sessions | rum
See RUM Migration Guide for full mapping instructions.
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/network_hosts | network_hosts
host_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/network_flows | network_flows
indexed_events_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/logs-by-retention | indexed_logs
Note: The usage type and datapoint are separate for this URL, because the retention value is included in the usage type.
Usage Type: logs_indexed_events_<retention>_count Datapoint: indexed_events_count
Usage Type: logs_live_indexed_events_<retention>_count Datapoint: live_indexed_events_count
Usage Type: logs_rehydrated_indexed_events_<retention>_count Datapoint: rehydrated_indexed_events_count
Usage Type: In usage_type, replace <retention> with one of : 3_day, 7_day, 15_day, 30_day, 45_day, 60_day, 90_day, 180_day, 365_day, custom Datapoint: retention
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/analyzed_logs | analyzed_logs
analyzed_logs
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/snmp | snmp
snmp_devices
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/profiling | profiling
host_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/ingested-spans | ingested_spans
ingested_events_bytes
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/incident-management | incident_management
monthly_active_users
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/iot | iot
iot_device_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/cspm | cspm
aas_host_count
azure_host_count
compliance_host_count
container_count
host_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/cws | cws
cws_container_count
cws_host_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/dbm | dbm
dbm_host_count
dbm_queries_count
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/sds | sds
logs_scanned_bytes
total_scanned_bytes
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/ci-app | ci_app
ci_pipeline_indexed_spans
ci_test_indexed_spans
ci_visibility_pipeline_committers
ci_visibility_test_committers
<base_url>/api/v1/usage/online-archive | online_archive
online_archive_events_count
<base_url>/api/v2/usage/lambda_traced_invocations | lambda_traced_invocations
lambda_traced_invocations_count
<base_url>/api/v2/usage/application_security | application_security
app_sec_host_count
<base_url>/api/v2/usage/observability_pipelines | observability_pipelines
observability_pipelines_bytes_processed

JSON:API Compliant Format

Response bodies and parameter names conform to the JSON:API specification. All data available in the v1 APIs is still available. See the example below of the mapping from the v1 hosts API to the v2 hourly usage API.

V1 API: Get hourly usage for hosts and containers

Request

https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/usage/hosts?start_hr=2022-06-01T00&end_hr=2022-06-01T01

Notes
  • Product is an element of the path hosts.
  • Time bounds are controlled by the parameters start_hr and end_hr.

Response

{
  "usage": [
    {
      "agent_host_count": 1,
      "alibaba_host_count": 2,
      "apm_azure_app_service_host_count": 3,
      "apm_host_count": 4,
      "aws_host_count": 5,
      "azure_host_count": 6,
      "container_count": 7,
      "gcp_host_count": 8,
      "heroku_host_count": 9,
      "host_count": 10,
      "infra_azure_app_service": 11,
      "opentelemetry_host_count": 12,
      "vsphere_host_count": 13,
      "hour": "2022-06-01T00",
      "org_name": "Customer Inc",
      "public_id": "abc123"
    }
  ]
}
Notes
  • Usage for each hour is represented as an object in the usage array.
  • Usage types are keys in the object, and measured usage for those usage types are the corresponding values.
  • Hour, organization name, and public ID are also fields in the object.

V2 API: Get hourly usage by product family

Request

https://api.datadoghq.com/api/v2/usage/hourly_usage?filter[timestamp][start]=2022-06-01T00&filter[timestamp][end]=2022-06-01T01&filter[product_families]=infra_hosts

Notes
  • Product is passed as a query parameter filter[product_families]=infra_hosts.
  • Time bounds are controlled by the parameters filter[timestamp][start] and filter[timestamp][end].

Response

{
  "data": [
    {
      "attributes": {
        "org_name": "Customer Inc",
        "public_id": "abc123",
        "timestamp": "2022-06-01T00:00:00+00:00",
        "region": "us",
        "measurements": [
          {
            "usage_type": "agent_host_count",
            "value": 1
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "alibaba_host_count",
            "value": 2
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "apm_azure_app_service_host_count",
            "value": 3
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "apm_host_count",
            "value": 4
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "aws_host_count",
            "value": 5
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "azure_host_count",
            "value": 6
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "container_count",
            "value": 7
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "gcp_host_count",
            "value": 8
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "heroku_host_count",
            "value": 9
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "host_count",
            "value": 10
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "infra_azure_app_service",
            "value": 11
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "opentelemetry_host_count",
            "value": 12
          },
          {
            "usage_type": "vsphere_host_count",
            "value": 13
          }
        ],
        "product_family": "infra_hosts"
      },
      "type": "usage_timeseries",
      "id": "ec3e0318b98d15c2ae8125e8bda0ff487cd08d80b120fb340c9322ee16f28629"
    }
  ]
}

Notes

  • Objects in the data array represent hourly usage, for each product and each organization.
    • V1 APIs did not support multiple products or multiple organizations per request.
  • Usage measurements are represented in the nested measurements array.
  • Usage measurement objects have the fields usage_type and value.
  • hour, org_name, and public_id are also fields in the attributes object.

Pagination

The v2 hourly usage API is paginated. Responses are limited to 500 pages, with a page containing usage data for one product family, for one hour, for one organization. Pagination allows the API to support other features such as multiple products per request, multiple organizations per request, and unlimited time ranges.

If a result has more pages, the record ID of the next page is returned in the field meta.pagination.next_record_id. Clients should then pass that id in the parameter pagination[next_record_id]. There are no more pages to retrieve when the meta.pagination.next_record_id field is not set.

Code example

response := GetHourlyUsage(start_time, end_time, product_families)
cursor := response.metadata.pagination.next_record_id
WHILE cursor != null BEGIN
sleep(5 seconds)  # Avoid running into rate limit
response := GetHourlyUsage(start_time, end_time, product_families, next_record_id=cursor)
cursor := response.metadata.pagination.next_record_id
END

Multi-organization responses

The v2 API supports retrieving usage data for all of your child organizations in all regions in one request. Use the parameter filter[include_descendants] to request data for child organizations.

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles: