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Datadog Agent Version 5
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dd-agent is the Datadog Agent, version 5, a Python-based monitoring agent published by DataDog as a GitHub repository. Its structure and topics indicate it collects monitoring data via configurable agent checks, though the recorded material does not detail the specific metrics or integrations it supports.
You reach for it when you need the version 5 Python agent for Datadog monitoring and agent-check-based collection.
Use it to
- Run the Datadog Agent v5 on monitored hosts
- Write or configure agent checks in Python
- Integrate monitoring into devops workflows
- Review or fork the legacy agent codebase
For Devops teams using Datadog monitoring
- Role
- agent-app
- Language
- Python
- Licence
- custom (licence file present)
- Forks
- 796
- Open issues
- 145
- Last push
- 2026-08-02
- Latest release
- 4.1.0 · 2014-02-04
topicsdatadog-agentmonitoringpythondevopsagent-checksagent