Features

This section walks through the user-visible features of the Datadog Agent end-to-end. Most cross multiple binaries, packages, and components — they don't fit neatly into one app or system page.

Page	What it covers
Metrics pipeline	DogStatsD → aggregator → serializer → forwarder. The end-to-end metric story.
Logs pipeline	File / journald / Windows ETW / Docker / Kubernetes log collection through to the intake.
APM tracing	Trace ingestion, sampling, stats computation, and forwarding.
Network monitoring	NPM and USM. eBPF flow tracking and protocol decoding.
Cloud Workload Security	CWS, SECL, and CSPM.
eBPF / system probe	The eBPF foundation underpinning NPM, USM, CWS, and several core checks.
Python checks	The embedded CPython 3 runtime that powers the Datadog integration ecosystem.

For per-binary detail (the agent process, the trace agent process, etc.) see Apps. For the shared subsystems (component framework, aggregator, autodiscovery, …) see Systems.