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Datadog Metric

Indexed span

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Unit
1 million indexed spans, per retention period
Definition
Pricing documentation: "An Indexed Span is an individual request against an individual service in your stack. Datadog charges based on the total number of spans indexed by retention filters within Datadog APM."
Counting rules
1 million indexed spans included per APM host per month, summed across all APM hosts; spans auto-retained by Datadog do not count towards it. On-demand span allotments are metered hourly (1,370 per APM host per hour).
Floors / minimums
None.
Applies to products
  • APM
  • APM Pro
  • APM Enterprise
  • Serverless APM
Product category
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