The DDOT gateway, now in public preview, enhances the Datadog Distribution of the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector by providing a scalable gateway deployment model for centralized management of telemetry pipelines. This solution addresses challenges faced by organizations in maintaining consistency across extensive services and teams by enabling centralized governance, advanced data pre-processing, and multi-destination routing from a single source. Unlike node-level collectors, the gateway allows platform and SRE teams to enforce consistent tagging and schema standards, apply sophisticated processing like tail-based sampling, and manage routing logic efficiently. It provides elastic scalability through Kubernetes' Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, ensuring high throughput and preventing data loss during traffic surges. Additionally, the DDOT gateway offers full lifecycle management, allowing teams to monitor performance and resource usage seamlessly, supported by Datadog's Fleet Automation for managing configurations and detecting configuration drift. This centralized approach facilitates the creation of a unified and resilient OpenTelemetry pipeline, optimizing data quality and cost management while maintaining robust observability infrastructure across dynamic environments.