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Datadog Connector

Status Available in: contrib Maintainers: @mx-psi, @dineshg13, @jade-guiton-dd, @IbraheemA Source: opentelemetry-collector-contrib

Overview

Description

The Datadog Connector is a connector component that derives APM statistics, in the form of metrics, from service traces, for display in the Datadog APM product. This component is required for trace-emitting services and their statistics to appear in Datadog APM. The Datadog connector can also forward the traces passed into it into another trace pipeline. Notably, if you plan to sample your traces with the tailsamplingprocessor or the probabilisticsamplerprocessor, you should place the Datadog connector upstream to ensure that the metrics are computed before sampling, ensuring their accuracy. An example is given below.

Usage

In this example configuration, incoming traces are received through OTLP, and processed by the Datadog connector in the traces pipeline. The traces are then forwarded to the traces/2 pipeline, where a sample of them is exported to Datadog. In parallel, the APM stats computed from the full stream of traces are sent to the metrics pipeline, where they are exported to Datadog as well.

Configurations


Last generated: 2026-08-24