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If I understand correctly, this is a receiver — which means you can take your existing DD instrumentation in their format and have it translated to OTel using this code.

It lowers the switching cost to get off of DD.

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And Datadog competitor Grafana sponsored it: https://twitter.com/boostchicken/status/1618692475845238784

Protect the moat at all costs!

It's worse than that, they want security through obscurity too. They feel like someone is inappropriately tinkering with the agent they want customers to install. It's open source: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent ...but the downloads are behind a login: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent#datadog-agent

Not really - the script it gives you in-app is

  DD_API_KEY= DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" bash -c "$(curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-agent/scripts/install_script_agent7.sh)"

They tell you to sign in because installing without a key leads to non-working agents and support tickets.

As for the libraries themselves, they're all on the regular package manager for that language, eg. pypi.

Ah, that's good to know, thanks. I didn't have that link, but I can see it doesn't have an API key, so they can't change the download based on who's downloading it. That's good for transparency. Ditto the package managers. I see some Linux package manager public keys in there too.

Edit: I missed the environment variable before "curl". The .sh is downloaded without the API key but the rest could be done using the API key, since it is passed to the script.

They want to keep their agent secret.

Secret Agent Man...

They've given you a pull number and taken 'way your name

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