Span Analytics APIs

The Span Analytics API allows you to browse spans collected in the system. You can execute queries to find individual spans matching provided search criteria as well as run aggregated span queries and retrieve their results. For more information, see Spans.

Other Tracing APIs

See also: Service Map APIs and Traces APIs.

Tracing APIs give you the ability to browse and execute queries for traces and span analytics, and request a service map of your application environment.

Endpoints for API access

Sumo Logic has deployments that are assigned depending on the geographic location and the date an account is created. For API access, you must manually direct your API client to the correct Sumo Logic API URL.

See Sumo Logic Endpoints for the list of the URLs.

An HTTP 301 Moved error suggests that the wrong endpoint was specified.

Session Timeout

While the span analytics query is running you need to request the query status based on the query ID. The API keeps the query alive by either polling for status or gathering results. If the search job is not kept alive by API requests, it is canceled after fifteen minutes. When a query is canceled after fifteen minutes of inactivity, you will get a 404 status.

Errors

The APIs return operation failures with a description and error code, including the following generic errors that apply to all APIs:

Code	Error	Description
301	moved	The requested resource SHOULD be accessed through returned URI in Location Header.
401	unauthorized	Credential could not be verified.
403	forbidden	This operation is not allowed for your account type.
404	notfound	Requested resource could not be found.
405	method.unsupported	Unsupported method for URL.
415	contenttype.invalid	Invalid content type.
429	rate.limit.exceeded	The API request rate is higher than 4 request per second.
500	internal.error	Internal server error.
503	service.unavailable	Service is currently unavailable.

Documentation

Documentation for OpenAPI built APIs is hosted on each deployment. Sumo Logic has several deployments that are assigned depending on the geographic location and the date an account is created. See how to determine which endpoint to use if you are unsure.

Select the documentation link for your deployment:

Deployment	Documentation URL
AU	https://api.au.sumologic.com/docs/#tag/spanAnalytics
CA	https://api.ca.sumologic.com/docs/#tag/spanAnalytics
DE	https://api.de.sumologic.com/docs/#tag/spanAnalytics
EU	https://api.eu.sumologic.com/docs/#tag/spanAnalytics
FED	https://api.fed.sumologic.com/docs/#tag/spanAnalytics
IN	https://api.in.sumologic.com/docs/#tag/spanAnalytics
JP	https://api.jp.sumologic.com/docs/#tag/spanAnalytics
US1	https://api.sumologic.com/docs/#tag/spanAnalytics
US2	https://api.us2.sumologic.com/docs/#tag/spanAnalytics