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title: Send metrics with Micrometer
description: Datadog, the leading service for cloud-scale monitoring.
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# Send metrics with Micrometer

## Overview{% #overview %}

[Micrometer](https://micrometer.io/) is a vendor-neutral interface that allows access to metrics with the ability to analyze them across their dimensions. Often used with a Java Spring Boot application as an abstraction layer to submit metrics.

Micrometer offers multiple ways to integrate with Datadog. This guide outlines Datadog's recommended options to use with the Agent to send metrics to Datadog.

## OpenTelemetry{% #opentelemetry %}

OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) Ingestion by the Datadog Agent allows you to take advantage of observability feature in the Datadog Agent.

- [OTLP Ingestion by the Datadog Agent](https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/otlp_ingest_in_the_agent/)

## Prometheus and OpenMetrics{% #prometheus-and-openmetrics %}

Use the Prometheus or OpenMetrics integrations to send your application metrics to Datadog.

- [Prometheus and OpenMetrics metrics collection from a host](https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/guide/prometheus-host-collection/#overview)
- [Kubernetes Prometheus and OpenMetrics metrics collection](https://docs.datadoghq.com/containers/kubernetes/prometheus/?tab=kubernetesadv2)
- [Docker Prometheus and OpenMetrics metrics collection](https://docs.datadoghq.com/containers/docker/prometheus/?tab=standard)

## Further reading{% #further-reading %}

- [Micrometer OTLP](https://docs.micrometer.io/micrometer/reference/implementations/otlp.html)
- [Micrometer Prometheus](https://docs.micrometer.io/micrometer/reference/implementations/prometheus.html)