DataDog/datadog-agent
Main repository for Datadog Agent
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 397 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #64 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 12, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Collects, monitors, and reports metrics, logs, and traces from infrastructure and applications for observability.
- Integrates seamlessly with Datadog's platform to provide unified monitoring and distributed tracing in a single agent.
- Use for real-time infrastructure monitoring and alerting across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Use for collecting application performance metrics and distributed traces to diagnose latency and errors.
- Use for aggregating logs and system metrics to support incident response and capacity planning.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
This repository contains the source code of the Datadog Agent version 7 and version 6. Please refer to the Agent user documentation for information about differences between Agent v5, Agent v6 and Agent v7. Additionally, we provide a list of prepackaged binaries for an easy install process here.
The developer docs site contains information about how to develop the Datadog Agent itself.
The source of the content is located under the docs directory and may contain pages that are not yet published.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+78 stars over 88 days across 18 snapshot days; best day +3 on Aug 7.
Forks
1.5K+59
Open issues
794+13
Compared with peers in Observability
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asymptote-Labs/agent-beacon | 3.3K | +360 | 40 | today |
| openobserve/openobserve | 22.8K | +235 | 40 | today |
| cilium/cilium | 25.8K | +52 | 65 | 3 days ago |
| grafana/loki | 29.1K | +42 | 65 | 1 day ago |
| Tracer-Cloud/opensre | 12.5K | — | 45 | today |
| DataDog/datadog-agent | 3.8K | — | 60 | 3 days ago |
| Category median | 22.8K | +144 | 45 | — |
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