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If I understand correctly, this is a receiver — which means you can take your existing DD instrumentation in their format and have it translated to OTel using t

by tonyhb 4y ago

If I understand correctly, this is a receiver — which means you can take your existing DD instrumentation in their format and have it translated to OTel using this code. It lowers the switching cost to get off of DD.

trynewideas 4y ago
And Datadog competitor Grafana sponsored it: https://twitter.com/boostchicken/status/1618692475845238784 https://twitter.com/boostchicken/status/1618692475845238784
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xen2xen1 4y ago
Protect the moat at all costs!
- benatkin 4y ago
  It's worse than that, they want security through obscurity too. They feel like someone is inappropriately tinkering with the agent they want customers to install. It's open source: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent ...but the downloads are behind a login: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent#datadog-agent https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent#datadog-agent
  - judge2020 4y ago
    Not really - the script it gives you in-app is DD_API_KEY= DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" bash -c "$(curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-agent/scripts/install_script_agent7.sh)" They tell you to sign in because installing without a key leads to non-working agents and support tickets. As for the libraries themselves, they're all on the regular package manager for that language, eg. pypi.
    - benatkin 4y ago
      Ah, that's good to know, thanks. I didn't have that link, but I can see it doesn't have an API key, so they can't change the download based on who's downloading it. That's good for transparency. Ditto the package managers. I see some Linux package manager public keys in there too. Edit: I missed the environment variable before "curl". The .sh is downloaded without the API key but the rest could be done using the API key, since it is passed to the script.
benatkin 4y ago
They want to keep their agent secret. Secret Agent Man...
- angstrom 4y ago
  They've given you a pull number and taken 'way your name

by tonyhb 4y ago

trynewideas 4y ago

And Datadog competitor Grafana sponsored it: https://twitter.com/boostchicken/status/1618692475845238784 https://twitter.com/boostchicken/status/1618692475845238784

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xen2xen1 4y ago

Protect the moat at all costs!

benatkin 4y ago
It's worse than that, they want security through obscurity too. They feel like someone is inappropriately tinkering with the agent they want customers to install. It's open source: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent ...but the downloads are behind a login: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent#datadog-agent https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent#datadog-agent
- judge2020 4y ago
  Not really - the script it gives you in-app is DD_API_KEY= DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" bash -c "$(curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-agent/scripts/install_script_agent7.sh)" They tell you to sign in because installing without a key leads to non-working agents and support tickets. As for the libraries themselves, they're all on the regular package manager for that language, eg. pypi.
  - benatkin 4y ago
    Ah, that's good to know, thanks. I didn't have that link, but I can see it doesn't have an API key, so they can't change the download based on who's downloading it. That's good for transparency. Ditto the package managers. I see some Linux package manager public keys in there too. Edit: I missed the environment variable before "curl". The .sh is downloaded without the API key but the rest could be done using the API key, since it is passed to the script.

benatkin 4y ago

They want to keep their agent secret. Secret Agent Man...

angstrom 4y ago
They've given you a pull number and taken 'way your name