Datadog Concepts

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Agent

The Datadog agent has a built-in StatsD server, exposed over a configurable port.

DogStatsD

https://docs.datadoghq.com/developers/dogstatsd/

DogStatsD is a metrics aggregation service bundled with the Datadog agent. DogStatsD implements the StatsD protocol and a few extensions (histogram metric type, service checks, events and tagging).

DogStatsD accepts custom metrics, events and service checks over UDP and periodically aggregates them and forwards them to Datadog.

DataDog and Kubernetes

The DataDog agent can be deployed as a container in ???