- Released Agent Prelude and Cluster Agent Prelude version 7.73.1 on 2025‑12‑17
- Agents are now built with Go 1.24.11
7.73.1
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Added a new reflector‑based Kubernetes event collection path, enabled via the "watch" event collection mode.
Metrics default to the more compact Datadog v3 intake (bandwidth reduction); v2 intake can be re‑enabled via config flags, and the exporter.datadogexporter.metricremappingdisabled flag is removed.
Added more trace collection during SSI installation on Linux hosts.