---
title: Getting Started with Datadog
description: Datadog, the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring.
breadcrumbs: Docs > Infrastructure > Datadog Resource Catalog
---

# aws_servicediscovery_namespace{% #aws_servicediscovery_namespace %}

## `account_id`{% #account_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`

## `arn`{% #arn %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `Arn`**Description**: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that Cloud Map assigns to the namespace when you create it.

## `create_date`{% #create_date %}

**Type**: `TIMESTAMP`**Provider name**: `CreateDate`**Description**: The date that the namespace was created, in Unix date/time format and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The value of `CreateDate` is accurate to milliseconds. For example, the value `1516925490.087` represents Friday, January 26, 2018 12:11:30.087 AM.

## `creator_request_id`{% #creator_request_id %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `CreatorRequestId`**Description**: A unique string that identifies the request and that allows failed requests to be retried without the risk of running an operation twice.

## `description`{% #description %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `Description`**Description**: The description that you specify for the namespace when you create it.

## `id`{% #id %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `Id`**Description**: The ID of a namespace.

## `name`{% #name %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `Name`**Description**: The name of the namespace, such as `example.com`.

## `properties`{% #properties %}

**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `Properties`**Description**: A complex type that contains information that's specific to the type of the namespace.

- `dns_properties`**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `DnsProperties`**Description**: A complex type that contains the ID for the Route 53 hosted zone that Cloud Map creates when you create a namespace.
  - `hosted_zone_id`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `HostedZoneId`**Description**: The ID for the Route 53 hosted zone that Cloud Map creates when you create a namespace.
  - `soa`**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `SOA`**Description**: Start of Authority (SOA) record for the hosted zone.
    - `ttl`**Type**: `INT64`**Provider name**: `TTL`**Description**: The time to live (TTL) for purposes of negative caching.
- `http_properties`**Type**: `STRUCT`**Provider name**: `HttpProperties`**Description**: A complex type that contains the name of an HTTP namespace.
  - `http_name`**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `HttpName`**Description**: The name of an HTTP namespace.

## `resource_owner`{% #resource_owner %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `ResourceOwner`**Description**: The ID of the Amazon Web Services account that created the namespace. If this isn't your account ID, it's the ID of the account that shared the namespace with your account. For more information about shared namespaces, see [Cross-account Cloud Map namespace sharing](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloud-map/latest/dg/sharing-namespaces.html) in the Cloud Map Developer Guide.

## `service_count`{% #service_count %}

**Type**: `INT32`**Provider name**: `ServiceCount`**Description**: The number of services that are associated with the namespace.

## `tags`{% #tags %}

**Type**: `UNORDERED_LIST_STRING`

## `type`{% #type %}

**Type**: `STRING`**Provider name**: `Type`**Description**: The type of the namespace. The methods for discovering instances depends on the value that you specify:

{% dl %}

{% dt %}
HTTP
{% /dt %}

{% dd %}
Instances can be discovered only programmatically, using the Cloud Map `DiscoverInstances` API.
{% /dd %}

{% dt %}
DNS_PUBLIC
{% /dt %}

{% dd %}
Instances can be discovered using public DNS queries and using the `DiscoverInstances` API.
{% /dd %}

{% dt %}
DNS_PRIVATE
{% /dt %}

{% dd %}
Instances can be discovered using DNS queries in VPCs and using the `DiscoverInstances` API.
{% /dd %}

{% /dl %}