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Before you start, read the prerequisites on the OTLP export page and check what is sent. This page only covers the values Datadog needs.
  1. Get the endpoint. Use the URL for your Datadog site.
  2. Get the key. In Datadog, go to Organization Settings > API Keys and create a key.
  3. Paste the values into Checkly. On the Traces settings page, turn on Enable exporting traces, paste the URL, and add both headers from the table below. Without compute_stats, Datadog does not compute trace metrics.
  4. Find the spans. In Datadog APM, the spans appear under service checkly.
If no spans arrive, check the site first. Datadog answers 403 when the site does not match your organization or the key is wrong. Datadog documents the intake in OTLP traces ingest. To see failed runs, filter on the attribute checkly.check.status with the value FAILED. The OTLP export page has the span schema.