Datadog Agents to OTel Gateway

PublishedFebruary 18, 2025

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The power of Open Source

We're experiencing a kind of software "enlightenment" era with various Open Source movements like OTel, Apache Iceberg, Deepseek, and more. For us at Omlet, we believe that the “telemetry highway” will be OTel. The “on” and “off” ramps could be diverse, but the “highway”: OTel

We want the Datadog Agent to transmit data smoothly, and we are excited to introduce the "Datadog-to-OTel" Service as a container that you can host yourself.

This opens up various use cases that benefit from dual-shipping or proxying alongside your main Datadog platform usage.

Use Cases

High-compliance scenarios

Sensitive observability data requires teams to buffer or store data on-premises or in-VPC. Redaction or filtration rules can be applied after the fact.

“Edge” Alerting and AIOPs

OTel is quickly becoming the universal standard for Observability understanding. The Datadog Agent outputs a wealth of structured telemetry that can be augmented with AI Agents at the “Edge”. These agents could output back to the Datadog platform for alerting / orchestration

Observability Pipelining and Observability Data Lake

You might want full data resolution with a specific retention period. You may also want to control the amount of noisy data that impacts MTTR and significantly increases costs. Long-term data analysis over weeks, months, or quarters can be done on complete observability data stored in object storage. Key observability data signals can be enhanced to reduce noise in the Datadog platform.

What next?

We’d love to hear from the community about what else you'd like to see. Visit us at https://www.omlet.co/ or email us at info@omlet.co to share your thoughts!

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