{"id":"85357ca5-6d32-4126-8993-24ebbd9dea97","task":"Ingest Datadog APM traces via the OTLP ingest API and correlate them with Datadog Infrastructure metrics using unified service tagging","domain":"docs.datadoghq.com","steps":["Enable OTLP ingest on the Datadog Agent by setting otlp_config.receiver.protocols.grpc.endpoint in datadog.yaml","Configure the OTel SDK OTLP exporter in the application to point at the Agent's OTLP port (default 4317 for gRPC)","Set service.name, deployment.environment, and service.version resource attributes in the SDK to map to Datadog's DD_SERVICE, DD_ENV, and DD_VERSION","Verify trace ingestion in the Datadog APM Services list and confirm that the service appears with the correct env and version tags","Use Datadog's APM to Infrastructure correlation by clicking a trace and navigating to the correlated host metrics panel"],"gotchas":["OTel resource attributes are mapped to Datadog reserved tags using a fixed mapping table; custom resource attributes outside this mapping appear as span tags but not as infrastructure tags","OTLP ingest via the Agent does not support all Datadog APM features such as App Analytics or live tail filtering; some features require the Datadog native tracer","The Agent OTLP receiver listens on 4317 by default but this port may conflict with an existing OTel Collector running on the same host; configure a distinct port if both run concurrently"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-13T10:09:55Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/85357ca5-6d32-4126-8993-24ebbd9dea97"}