Name: Datadog Fleet Automation
Brand: Datadog

Feature Overview

Datadog’s Fleet Automation empowers teams to centrally govern Datadog Agents and OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collectors, ensuring observability consistency across their environments. By streamlining Agent and OpenTelemetry collector monitoring, alongside Agent upgrades and configurations, Fleet Automation helps teams manage their Datadog Agents and OpenTelemetry Collectors at scale.

Centrally monitor Fleet

Use a single, central platform to gain visibility into your entire fleet of Datadog Agents and OTel Collectors and ensure consistent observability coverage
View Agent and OTel Collector configuration data to easily confirm modifications and resolve issues
Identify Agentless hosts, API key usage, and Agent configurations issues in a single view
Send flares instantly to the Datadog team to accelerate Agent troubleshooting

Centrally manage your Datadog Agents and OTel Collectors in one place

Troubleshoot Datadog Agent and OTel Pipelines

Send a support flare remotely from any Datadog Agent or DDOT Collector to capture diagnostic information and reduce time-to-resolution without requiring direct host access
Visualize end-to-end pipelines for any OpenTelemetry Collector (DDOT or upstream-compatible) to validate telemetry routing.
Spot abnormal OTel data flow patterns with traffic monitoring and pinpoint where telemetry is dropped or delayed.
Drill down to OTel component-level configurations to quickly identify where telemetry pipelines are misconfigured or breaking down.

Pipeline visualization for OpenTelemetry Collectors

Scale Agent upgrades

Centrally track and enforce Agent versions across all environments to ensure consistent access to new features and compliance with security standards
Handle Agent upgrades across both Windows and Linux platforms in one place
Upgrade your entire fleet of Agents with a few clicks

Manage Agent configurations

Minimize operational burden by remotely deploying Agent configurations to different environments and teams via a central tool, without needing direct access to a machine
Configure Agents across the organization through UI guided workflows without writing any YAML
Allow teams to identify observability gaps and then address them by quickly onboarding products and integrations