Datadog Agent
Main repository for Datadog Agent observed · 2026-10-21
Health v2 · maintenance only
96/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 88
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 6
- age_days: 3927
- days_rel: 1
- days_push: 0
- n_releases_24m: 98
Adoption not part of the score
3769 stars · 1514 forks observed · 2026-10-21
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
The Datadog Agent is the open-source agent that collects metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from hosts, containers, and cloud services and ships them to Datadog. It supports hundreds of integrations and OpenTelemetry ingestion, and is written primarily in Go.
Use cases
- collect host and container metrics for monitoring
- ship logs from servers to a monitoring platform
- trace application performance with APM
- monitor Kubernetes clusters
- ingest OpenTelemetry traces
- profile application performance in production
When to avoid
- you want a fully self-hosted observability stack without Datadog's SaaS backend
- you need a lightweight single-purpose collector (e.g., only metrics) such as Prometheus node_exporter
- your environment is not covered by Datadog's supported platforms
Facets
service · maturity stable
monitoring logging tracing monitoring cloud-computing windows go observability apm metrics datadog open-telemetry agent distributed-tracing profiling devops linux macos docker kubernetes
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent · fetched 2026-10-21 · 2b18bf0ba791
- homepage: https://docs.datadoghq.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7885291fa6e0
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| DataDog/datadog-agent | main | 96 |
| DataDog/dd-agent | backend | 62 |
| DataDog/integrations-core | backend | 98 |
| DataDog/helm-charts | infra | 95 |
| DataDog/datadog-operator | plugin | 99 |
| DataDog/ansible-datadog | infra | 83 |
| DataDog/integrations-extras | backend | 77 |
| DataDog/docker-dd-agent | backend | 28 |
| DataDog/ebpf-manager | plugin | 96 |
| DataDog/datadog-lambda-extension | plugin | 99 |
| DataDog/datadog-lambda-js | sdk | 98 |
| DataDog/jmxfetch | plugin | 86 |
| DataDog/gohai | plugin | 10 |
| DataDog/datadog-lambda-python | sdk | 98 |
| DataDog/lading | plugin | 95 |
| DataDog/dd-apm-test-agent | plugin | 95 |
| DataDog/heroku-buildpack-datadog | plugin | 97 |
| DataDog/datadog-cdk-constructs | sdk | 98 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="DataDog/datadog-agent")
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