Datadog has expanded its native OpenTelemetry (OTel) support across ingestion, investigation, and upstream contributions. Teams can now send OTLP telemetry to Datadog via the standard OTLP HTTP Exporter without any proprietary components like the Datadog Agent or Datadog Exporter. A direct OTLP intake endpoint is now generally available for serverless and managed environments. OTel-native data now powers Datadog's Kubernetes Explorer and APM directly, including RED metrics via the spanmetrics connector and runtime metrics dashboards. Datadog engineers also co-authored the OTel Profiles alpha release and contribute to OTel SIGs covering profiling, sampling, RUM, and OpAMP. A Full Host Profiler built on the OTel eBPF profiler is now in Preview.
