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Re:DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request by tonyhb on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:56PM (#34540594)
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.

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Re:DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request by trynewideas on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:03PM (#34540653)
And Datadog competitor Grafana sponsored it: https://twitter.com/boostchicken/status/1618692475845238784
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Re:DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request by xen2xen1 on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:09PM (#34540703)
Protect the moat at all costs!
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Re:DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request by benatkin on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:20PM (#34540798)
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 ...but the downloads are behind a login: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent#datadog-agent
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Re:DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request by judge2020 on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:23PM (#34540841)
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.

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Re:DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request by benatkin on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:27PM (#34540876)
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.
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Re:DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request by benatkin on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:16PM (#34540767)
They want to keep their agent secret.

Secret Agent Man...

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Re:DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request by angstrom on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:26PM (#34540868)
They've given you a pull number and taken 'way your name
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