Traces are not arriving in HQ from DataDog

[gq0]

/cc @frzifus @ecktom @philippfranke

[gq0]

The tracer is not included in the from source build. The official debian image does not work for us because the armhf package of the agent cannot be found, maybe because of the multiarch, or it is actually not there, who knows. Officially I haven't seen any arm image from DataDog.

I think, what we have to do is fetch the trace-agent's source (golang) build it and copy the executable to the right place in the image, including changing the supervisor's (DataDog's not ours) configuration file to find this executable.

https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-trace-agent/tree/6.6.0
https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/blob/master/packaging/supervisor.conf

[frzifus]

What about the possibility to operate the agent somewhere else? to transfer the traces https can be activated or alternatively we could use an vpn connection?

[gq0]

Also an option, we could deploy the agent in the backend

[ecktom]

Please keep in mind that there could be some trouble building it from source for armhf with the current sources:
DataDog/datadog-agent#2499 (known issues)
https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-trace-agent/issues/445

So we might have to go back a few months to the point where @gq0 was able to build it.

Running it should be as simple as:
/opt/datadog-agent/embedded/bin/trace-agent -config /etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml

[frzifus]

Is this still a thing? If yes, we should have a look on otel[0].

0: https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/setup_overview/open_standards/