Skip to main content

Tag: Datadog

Problems related to Datadog integration, such as missing metrics, reporting failures, or misconfigurations

IDTitleDescriptionCategoryTechnologyTags
CRE-2025-0034
Medium
Impact: 6/10
Mitigation: 2/10
Datadog agent disabled due to missing API key
If the Datadog agent or client libraries do not detect a configured API key, they will skip sending metrics, logs, and events. This results in a silent failure of observability reporting, often visible only through startup log messages.
Observability ProblemsdatadogDatadogConfigurationApi KeyObservabilityEnvironmentTelemetryKnown IssuePublic
CRE-2025-0059
Low
Impact: 6/10
Mitigation: 2/10
Datadog CWS Instrumentation webhook registration fails without service account
  • Datadog Cluster Agent fails to register its CWS (Container Workload Security) instrumentation webhook when running in `remote_copy` mode without a configured service account.
Configuration ProblemdatadogDatadogCWSAdmission ControllerwebhookConfigurationKnown Issue
CRE-2025-0060
Low
Impact: 5/10
Mitigation: 2/10
Datadog OpenMetrics Scrape Returns 404
  • The Datadog Agent is unable to scrape metrics from an OpenMetrics endpoint, returning a 404 Not Found error.
  • This typically indicates that the target service is either not exposing the `/metrics` path, the port or path is misconfigured, or the service is not running.
Monitoring ProblemdatadogObservabilityDatadog