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New vendored schemas: Datadog

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
json
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Start by reviewing the three Datadog schema sources linked in the issue and the corresponding SchemaStore catalog entries. Inspect existing vendored-schema entries in check-jsonschema to identify the expected locations and validation checks. Done means all three schemas are vendored and automatically validate the intended Datadog configuration files; the issue notes that a PR is already ready to submit.

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Description

Datadog provides monitoring and observability services with several configuration file formats. Being able to automatically validate these configuration files would help ensure proper setup.

The sources for these schemas are available in the DataDog/schema repository:

and schemastore entries exist:

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Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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