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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.