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Datadog Agent¶

Welcome to the wonderful world of developing the Datadog Agent. Here we document how we do things, advanced debugging techniques, coding conventions & best practices, the internals of our testing infrastructure, and so much more.

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Getting started¶

First, you'll want to set up your development environment.

Agent development guidelines¶

To know more about the general design of the Agent and how to add code and feature read our section on Components.

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