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.
\- Datadog Cluster Agent fails to register its CWS (Container Workload Security) instrumentation webhook when running in `remote_copy` mode without a configured service account.
\- The Datadog Agent is unable to scrape metrics from an OpenMetrics endpoint, returning a 404 Not Found error.
The Datadog Agent’s *Postgres* integration throws an uncaught Python
ArgoCD application controller fails to process certain custom resources due to being unable to find API fields in struct RawExtension. This commonly affects users deploying Datadog Operator CRDs, resulting in application sync errors for these resources.