[fhwang]

How is the data getting into these tools in the first place? If your applications are instrumented with OpenTelemetry, you can use the OpenTelemetry Collector as the first hop, and then you might be able to send the data to both tools at the same time.

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/

[user568439]

There is a proprietary agent in my system collecting the data and sending it to the monitoring tool in a proprietary format. It's still quite simple and easy to parse though.

However getting the data in Datadog is not a problem. The problem is losing ready to use monitoring tools and apps designed to work for my specific software and having to configure a much more flexible tool as Datadog to do things I already have available.