Add DDOT to supported distributions

[pan-emily]

Closes #498

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[joschi]

Suggested change

	"name": "Datadog OpenTelemetry Collector",
	"name": "Datadog OpenTelemetry Collector",

[joschi]

Suggested change

	"releases": [
	{
	"version": "7.72.1",
	"artifact": "datadog-agent-7.72.1-1.x86_64.rpm",
	"released_at": "2025-01-23T00:00:00Z"
	}
	]
	}
	"releases": [
	{
	"version": "7.72.1",
	"artifact": "datadog-agent-7.72.1-1.x86_64.rpm",
	"released_at": "2025-01-23T00:00:00Z"
	}
	]
	}

[joschi]

issue(blocking): This is an AVIF image, not an SVG file.

❯ file datadog.svg
datadog.svg: ISO Media, AVIF Image

[joschi]

@pan-emily Thank you for your contribution!

As far as I understand https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/setup/ddot_collector/install/linux, this isn't really a stand-alone distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector, but it's kind of embedded into the Datadog Agent.

Is there any way we can start only the OpenTelemetry Collector component?

[pan-emily]

@pan-emily Thank you for your contribution!

As far as I understand https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/setup/ddot_collector/install/linux, this isn't really a stand-alone distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector, but it's kind of embedded into the Datadog Agent.

Is there any way we can start only the OpenTelemetry Collector component?

Thanks for the feedback! Yes currently it seems like DDOT does not expose any standalone collector binary without the Datadog Agent. Let me check with the team though (I work at Datadog 😸 )

If it doesn't make sense to add it since it must come in the Datadog Agent bundle, I totally understand.

[mmanciop]

@pan-emily any news on starting the Datadog distro standalone? It is a requirement for being able to perform validation.