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 the development requirements.
Agent development guidelines¶
Read about the Agent's component framework and configuration schema in Architecture, with links to their tutorials, how-to guides, guidelines, and references.
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