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