Overview

Datadog Fleet Automation allows you to centrally govern and remotely manage Datadog Agents and OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collectors at scale to support your evolving observability needs.

Key capabilities

With Fleet Automation, you can:

• View Agent and OTel Collector configurations along with historical changes to confirm deployment updates and verify configuration consistency.
• Configure Datadog Agents to centralize setup and gain visibility into your environments faster.
• Keep your fleet up to date by identifying and upgrading outdated Agent and OTel Collector versions.
• Send a support flare remotely, reducing the time it takes to debug issues on an Agent or DDOT Collector.

Fleet Automation API

Fleet Automation provides a public API that allows you to programmatically view and manage Datadog Agents at scale. For full endpoint details and usage examples, see the Fleet Automation API documentation.

Control access to Fleet Automation

Fleet Automation is available to all users in a Datadog organization. You can control access to specific functionality:

For information on setting up roles and permissions, see Access Control.

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Centrally set up and scale monitoring of your infrastructure and apps with Datadog Fleet AutomationBLOG Manage all your OpenTelemetry collectors with Datadog Fleet AutomationBLOG Centralize and govern your OpenTelemetry pipeline with the DDOT gatewayBLOG Find out more about Remote ConfigurationDOCUMENTATION Learn about the Agent configuration viewDOCUMENTATION Centrally govern and remotely manage Datadog Agents at scale with Fleet AutomationBLOG