DataDog DataDog Update Version 7.79.0

7.79.0 Agent, released on 2026-05-20, adds major macOS installation changes, new monitoring capabilities, and multiple APM, logs, and Kubernetes enhancements. It also upgrades JMXFetch to 0.52.0 and changes several default behaviors, including macOS system-wide installation and Linux discovery defaults.

• Logs agent, CWS security reporter, compliance reporter, and event platform forwarder now retry HTTP 403 responses when the API key comes from a secrets backend, triggering an asynchronous secrets refresh instead of dropping the payload.
• The cluster agent readiness probe now waits for the admission controller webhook server to be ready, reducing the risk of missed pod mutations during rollouts.
• The OTel Agent now supports standalone mode with DD_OTEL_STANDALONE=true, providing Datadog Agent functionality through the dogtelextension extension without a co-resident core Agent.

• The logs agent now retries payloads on HTTP 403 when secrets-backed API keys are refreshed, instead of dropping them.
• NPM connection payloads now include a process_name:<name> tag for the owning process when process collection is enabled.
• The kubelet core check now reports CPU and memory request/limit metrics from live container status values when available, improving accuracy after in-place vertical resize.
• RDS Aurora Autodiscovery now inherits cluster tags onto instances when instance-level tags are not set.
• The config implementation now uses an improved node-tree model by default, with a fallback option to the previous viper-based behavior.
• The macOS install process now hides the DMG mount during installation.

• Flares now include connectivity/resolved_endpoints.txt showing how intake hostnames resolve at flare time.
• Added capacity-type:spot host tags for AWS EC2 Spot instances.
• Cluster Agent now processes select actions on Kubernetes resources and sends status updates through the EVP pipeline.
• APM trace agent adds a context-aware shutdown API with timeout support.
• Added a native Go core check for the Datadog CSI driver, replacing the Python OpenMetrics integration.
• Added DNS monitoring support on macOS using libpcap packet capture.
• Added the comp/dataobs/queryactions component for Data Observability query actions.
• Added experimental agent experimental check-config and agent experimental onboard commands.
• macOS host metadata now includes CPU cache sizes, CPU package count, and hardware platform.
• The macOS install script now supports DD_INFRASTRUCTURE_MODE and performs a system-wide installation by default.
• Added Cloud Network Monitoring support on macOS via BPF filters.
• Added datadog.dogstatsd.offline_duration gauge metric for DogStatsD offline time.
• Dynamic Instrumentation now supports conditional probes via when clauses.
• Dynamic Instrumentation now supports probing Go generic functions.
• The OTel Agent now supports standalone mode with DD_OTEL_STANDALONE=true.
• OTLP ingest configuration keys now expose explicit defaults matching upstream OpenTelemetry Collector defaults.

• Existing per-user macOS installations must be uninstalled and reinstalled to adopt the new system-wide LaunchDaemon mode.
• The previous macOS install script is preserved as install_mac_os_v1.sh for versions prior to 7.79.0.
• Enable telemetry.offlinereporter.enabled: true to collect datadog.dogstatsd.offline_duration.
• Enable data_observability.query_actions.enabled: true to use the Data Observability query actions component.
• The Linux discovery module (discovery.enabled) and system-probe-lite (discovery.use_system_probe_lite) are now enabled by default; disable discovery in system-probe.yaml if needed.
• The default Datadog registry list has expanded to include public registries for the K8s SSI gradual rollout feature.
• The OTel Agent standalone mode removes the need for a co-resident core Datadog Agent.

• Kata metrics architecture details
  https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main/docs/design/kata-2-0-metrics.md#metrics-architecture

Product Information

Vendor: DataDog

Product: DataDog

Version: 7.79.0

Release date: May 20, 2026