Datadog enhances its support for OpenTelemetry (OTel) by introducing the Datadog OTLP Metrics API, which facilitates the direct ingestion of OTLP metrics from serverless and third-party SaaS environments into the Datadog platform. This development addresses the need for monitoring in modern cloud-native architectures where traditional collectors cannot be deployed, such as in serverless environments and applications that emit metrics directly in OTLP format. By allowing OTLP metrics to be sent directly to Datadog without requiring a collector or agent, the API expands observability options, enabling comprehensive monitoring of serverless workloads and cloud-provider managed OTel distributions like AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry and Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro. The OTLP Metrics API complements Datadog's existing ingestion methods, including the Datadog Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector and other APIs, offering a robust framework for integrating OTLP metrics with existing telemetry data to ensure system health monitoring and issue correlation across diverse environments.