Send metrics with Micrometer

Overview

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

See the configuration outlined in the following documentation:


Prometheus and OpenMetrics

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

See the configuration outlined in the following documentation:


Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

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