Exploring and cataloging your endpoints
Exploring endpoints
The API Catalog Explorer page shows all endpoints in all environments in your Datadog organization. The performance data shown for each endpoint is scoped to the environment and time frame you select. You can browse and ask questions by querying different properties and metrics for more precise results, and you can filter using facets and tags.
In the table, click a header to sort by its column. For example, click P99 to see endpoints with the highest 99th percentile for latency. Note that the P99 column may not be displayed by default.
The table also shows TEAM ownership for the API. This information is inherited from the associated service definition in the Service Catalog. The service owner owns all of the endpoints connected to the service.
To filter the list or to search for an endpoint of interest, enter a query in the Search field. Search by service, path, or any other primary tag. Alternatively, select a combination of facets to filter by the Service or the Team the endpoint belongs to.
To scope the data shown in the table, specify an environment, another primary tag (such as datacenter), and a time frame in Scope Metrics to.
Classify APIs to express a feature or business logic
In addition to tagging an endpoint from its details page, you can add tags to multiple endpoints at once. To do this, select multiple endpoint check boxes, and click Edit Tags. Use these labels to describe business logic, importance, or other useful grouping information. Applying these labels can help you view and access groups of endpoints defined by your own criteria. This is helpful to create assets such as monitors and dashboards for endpoint groups with common characteristics.
For example, if you want to create latency alerts for endpoints that are particularly sensitive to performance problems, tag those endpoints with a tag like Latency sensitive.
Or tag endpoints that handle sensitive data with a tag like PII and alert when endpoints with that tag have a 401 Unauthorized response. Other examples of useful tags include:
critical to feature Xnewly added - V2contains passwordcontains PII- Business logic (for example,
payments) - Specific customer group (
subscribers)
When you add a tag, it appears in the list of facets beside the catalog. Click a facet to filter the list and add the tag to the Search query field.
Establishing ownership
The Team column on the Explorer page and each endpoint details page shows the name of the team that owns the service that the endpoint is associated with. If ownership hasn’t been assigned, click the Register Endpoints dropdown and choose an owner to assign one.
You can see which team owns each endpoint, and click a team name to see more details. For example, you can see more information about the team and their dashboards, the on-call engineer, and how to reach them (email, Slack, PagerDuty) to resolve incidents involving a specific API endpoint.
The ownership information–team, on-call information, communication details–is derived from the service definition supplied from the Service Catalog. The service owner owns all of the endpoints connected to the service.
Further reading
Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:
