Authentication

All requests to Datadog’s API must be authenticated. Requests that write data require reporting access and require an API key. Requests that read data require full access and also require an application key.

Note: All Datadog API clients are configured by default to consume Datadog US site APIs. If you are on the Datadog EU site, set the environment variable DATADOG_HOST to https://api.datadoghq.eu or override this value directly when creating your client.

Manage your account’s API and application keys.

Validate API key

v1 (latest)

GET https://api.datadoghq.eu/api/v1/validatehttps://api.ddog-gov.com/api/v1/validatehttps://api.datadoghq.com/api/v1/validatehttps://api.us3.datadoghq.com/api/v1/validate

Overview

Check if the API key (not the APP key) is valid. If invalid, a 403 is returned.

Response

Represent validation endpoint responses.

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Field

Type

Description

valid

boolean

Return true if the authentication response is valid.

{
  "valid": true
}

Authentication error

Error response object.

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Field

Type

Description

errors [required]

[string]

Array of errors returned by the API.

{
  "errors": [
    "Bad Request"
  ]
}

Code Example

# Curl command
curl -X GET "https://api.datadoghq.eu"https://api.ddog-gov.com"https://api.datadoghq.com"https://api.us3.datadoghq.com/api/v1/validate" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "DD-API-KEY: ${DD_API_KEY}"

package main

import (
    "context"
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "os"
    datadog "github.com/DataDog/datadog-api-client-go/api/v1/datadog"
)

func main() {
    ctx := datadog.NewDefaultContext(context.Background())


    configuration := datadog.NewConfiguration()

    apiClient := datadog.NewAPIClient(configuration)
    resp, r, err := apiClient.AuthenticationApi.Validate(ctx)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error when calling `AuthenticationApi.Validate`: %v\n", err)
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Full HTTP response: %v\n", r)
    }
    // response from `Validate`: AuthenticationValidationResponse
    responseContent, _ := json.MarshalIndent(resp, "", "  ")
    fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "Response from AuthenticationApi.Validate:\n%s\n", responseContent)
}

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to main.go and run following commands:

              export DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<API-KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<APP-KEY>"
go run "main.go"

// Import classes:
import java.util.*;
import com.datadog.api.v1.client.ApiClient;
import com.datadog.api.v1.client.ApiException;
import com.datadog.api.v1.client.Configuration;
import com.datadog.api.v1.client.auth.*;
import com.datadog.api.v1.client.model.*;
import com.datadog.api.v1.client.api.AuthenticationApi;

public class Example {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ApiClient defaultClient = Configuration.getDefaultApiClient();

        AuthenticationApi apiInstance = new AuthenticationApi(defaultClient);
        try {
            AuthenticationValidationResponse result = apiInstance.validate();
            System.out.println(result);
        } catch (ApiException e) {
            System.err.println("Exception when calling AuthenticationApi#validate");
            System.err.println("Status code: " + e.getCode());
            System.err.println("Reason: " + e.getResponseBody());
            System.err.println("Response headers: " + e.getResponseHeaders());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to Example.java and run following commands:

              export DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<API-KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<APP-KEY>"
java "Example.java"

import os
from dateutil.parser import parse as dateutil_parser
from datadog_api_client.v1 import ApiClient, ApiException, Configuration
from datadog_api_client.v1.api import authentication_api
from datadog_api_client.v1.models import *
from pprint import pprint
# See configuration.py for a list of all supported configuration parameters.
configuration = Configuration()

# Enter a context with an instance of the API client
with ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:
    # Create an instance of the API class
    api_instance = authentication_api.AuthenticationApi(api_client)

    # example, this endpoint has no required or optional parameters
    try:
        # Validate API key
        api_response = api_instance.validate()
        pprint(api_response)
    except ApiException as e:
        print("Exception when calling AuthenticationApi->validate: %s\n" % e)

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.py and run following commands:

              export DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<API-KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<APP-KEY>"
python3 "example.py"

require 'datadog_api_client'
api_instance = DatadogAPIClient::V1::AuthenticationAPI.new

begin
  # Validate API key
  result = api_instance.validate
  p result
rescue DatadogAPIClient::V1::APIError => e
  puts "Error when calling AuthenticationAPI->validate: #{e}"
end

Instructions

First install the library and its dependencies and then save the example to example.rb and run following commands:

              export DD_SITE="datadoghq.comus3.datadoghq.comdatadoghq.euddog-gov.com" DD_API_KEY="<API-KEY>" DD_APP_KEY="<APP-KEY>"
rb "example.rb"