# Datadog Agent

Main repository for Datadog Agent

Repository: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/datadog-agent
Homepage: https://docs.datadoghq.com/
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: monitoring, go, datadog, apm-agent, apm-instrumentation, distributed-tracing, logging, metrics, observability, open-telemetry, otel, profiling, tracing
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:55:16+00:00
Link (homepage): https://docs.datadoghq.com/

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3879, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 6, "n_releases_24m": 92}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3713, forks 1477 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:15.220032+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: stable
- function: monitoring, logging, tracing
- domain: monitoring, cloud-computing
- platform: windows, go
- tags: observability, apm, metrics, datadog, open-telemetry, agent, distributed-tracing, profiling, devops, linux, macos, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- DataDog/datadog-agent (main) score 95
- DataDog/dd-agent (mirror) score 66
- DataDog/integrations-core (plugin) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.220032+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:30:52.271067+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:15.220032+00:00, sha 2b18bf0ba791)
  - homepage: https://docs.datadoghq.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:24:25.881548+00:00, sha 7885291fa6e0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.