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Datadog Agent

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.

Documentation

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.

Contributing code

You'll find information and help on how to contribute code to this project under the docs/dev directory of the present repo.

License

The Datadog Agent user space components are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The BPF code is licensed under the General Public License, Version 2.0.

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datadog/datadog-agent

Main repository for Datadog Agent

3,724

stars

35,675

commits

primary language

Sep 11, 2026

updated

docs.datadoghq.com/

apm-agent

apm-instrumentation

datadog

distributed-tracing

logging

metrics

monitoring

observability

open-telemetry

otel

profiling

tracing

README

Datadog Agent

Documentation

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.

Contributing code

You'll find information and help on how to contribute code to this project under the docs/dev directory of the present repo.

License

The Datadog Agent user space components are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The BPF code is licensed under the General Public License, Version 2.0.