DataDog/datadog-agent
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Is DataDog/datadog-agent beginner-friendly?
In the last 30 days, DataDog/datadog-agent merged 176 of 381 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 3 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 3.8k
- Forks
- 1.5k
- Open beginner issues
- 3
- Indexed issues
- 81
- Avg merge
- 1d 11h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 594
- Dominant language
- Go
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last GitHub push
- Oct 13, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 15, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- No code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- No beginner labels indexed
How to contribute to DataDog/datadog-agent
- Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
- Pick one of the 3 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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oss/0 pending team/agent-security
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 56/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#57795 ·
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oss/0 pending team/debugger-go
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 72/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#57314 ·
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oss/0 pending team/container-integrations team/kubernetes-experiences
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#57163 ·
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Second `dogstatsd-capture` in one agent process leaks every dogstatsd packet buffer until restartMay be free again @atanzu claimed this 28 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openoss/0 pending team/agent-metric-pipelines
DataDog/datadog-agent#56407 · 1 assignee ·
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component/config oss/0 pending team/agent-configuration team/fleet-automation
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#55426 ·
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oss/0 team/agent-apm
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#52365 · 4 comments ·
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oss/0 team/opentelemetry
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#51145 · 6 comments ·
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oss/0 team/agent-build
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#50954 · 2 comments ·
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oss/0 pending team/cloud-network-monitoring
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#48692 ·
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team/serverless-azure-gcp
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#48308 ·
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[BUG] Cluster Agent External Metrics Provider returns HTTP 500 for "no serie found" — should return 422 to enable downstream FillValue/fallback handlingMay be free again @mdavis1013 claimed this 56 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openoss/0 pending team/container-autoscaling
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#46843 · 4 comments · 4 reactions ·
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oss/0 team/database-monitoring
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#44574 · 1 comment ·
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oss/0 pending team/agent-integrations
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#44442 · 1 reaction ·
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oss/0 pending team/container-integrations
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#44084 · 2 comments ·
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[BUG] Inventorychecks: “could not read files metadata” error with Agent 7.21.1 (Helm chart 3.142.0+)Openoss/0 team/fleet
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#44047 · 4 comments · 2 reactions ·
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kind/feature oss/0 pending team/agent-onboarding
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#43885 ·
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[FEATURE]: presubmit linters should be incremental to the files being changedMay be free again @niharikag09 claimed this 72 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openkind/feature team/agent-devx
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#43751 · 1 comment ·
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kind/feature oss/0 pending team/universal-service-monitoring
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 48/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#43397 ·
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oss/1 team/opentelemetry-agent
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#43098 · 3 comments ·
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oss/1 team/fleet
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#43052 · 2 comments ·
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oss/0 pending team/database-monitoring
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#42781 ·
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oss/1 stale team/container-experiences waiting on author
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#41735 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·
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oss/2 team/documentation
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#38865 · 7 comments · 1 reaction ·
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oss/1 pending team/container-experiences
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#35808 · 4 comments ·
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kind/bug oss/2 team/container-integrations
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#33804 · 5 comments · 1 reaction ·
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oss/1 pending team/opentelemetry
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#33674 · 7 comments · 14 reactions ·
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team/serverless-azure-gcp
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#33581 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·
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Dependency DashboardOpenoss/0 pending team/agent-devx
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#33469 ·
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[BUG] Race in batchStrategy flushing logs on serverless shutdownMay be free again @nhulston claimed this 346 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openoss/2 team/serverless-azure-gcp
DataDog/datadog-agent#32951 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·
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oss/1 pending team/opentelemetry
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#32947 · 4 comments · 5 reactions ·
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kind/feature oss/1 team/container-integrations
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#32493 · 2 comments · 2 reactions ·
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oss/1 pending team/container-integrations
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#31002 · 2 reactions ·
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oss/1 pending team/database-monitoring
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#29717 · 1 comment · 5 reactions ·
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oss/1 pending team/agent-configuration
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#23009 · 9 comments ·
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oss/1 pending team/container-integrations
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#22640 · 16 comments · 36 reactions ·
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[BUG] Failures to query pg_stat_statements_info in postgres apm integration with specified dbnameOpenoss/1 team/database-monitoring
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#21829 · 9 comments · 16 reactions ·
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oss/1 pending team/opentelemetry
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#21487 · 8 comments · 5 reactions ·
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oss/1 team/kubernetes-experiences
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#17173 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·
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component/otlp oss/1 pending team/opentelemetry
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#14921 · 3 comments ·
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oss/2 pending team/agent-integrations
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#11436 · 14 comments ·
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oss/1 pending team/database-monitoring
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#9676 · 10 comments · 14 reactions ·
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[deprecated] team/agent-platform oss/1 team/agent-delivery
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#8865 · 3 comments ·
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oss/1 team/agent-delivery
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#8361 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·
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kind/feature oss/2 team/agent-metric-pipelines
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#4165 · 4 comments · 39 reactions ·
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oss/1 team/container-experiences
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#4149 · 4 comments ·
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Agent not honoring DD_COLLECT_EC2_TAGS when ec2 integration is turned onMay be free again @fabbing claimed this 259 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openkind/bug oss/0 team/agent-runtimes
DataDog/datadog-agent#4092 · 16 comments · 26 reactions · 1 assignee ·
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oss/1 pending team/agent-metric-pipelines
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#3984 · 11 comments · 1 reaction ·
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oss/2 team/agent-onboarding
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#3684 · 14 comments · 3 reactions ·
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oss/0 pending team/agent-metric-pipelines
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#3130 · 38 comments · 250 reactions ·
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kind/feature oss/1 team/agent-configuration
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
DataDog/datadog-agent#3124 · 4 comments · 9 reactions ·
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