CHANGELOG - network

5.7.0 / 2026-04-01 / Agent 7.78.0

Added:

• Add support for security validation in models (#23109)

5.6.0 / 2026-02-19 / Agent 7.77.0

Added:

• Add enable_legacy_tags_normalization option to preserve hyphens in tag values when set to false. (#22303)

5.5.0 / 2025-11-26 / Agent 7.74.0

Added:

• Bump minimum version of datadog-checks-base to 37.24.0 (#21945)

5.4.0 / 2025-10-02 / Agent 7.72.0

Added:

• Bump Python to 3.13 (#21161)
• Bump datadog-checks-base to 37.21.0 (#21477)

5.3.0 / 2025-07-10 / Agent 7.69.0

Added:

• Add support for mlx5_core drivers in ethtool integration [CMPT-3460] (#20481)

5.2.0 / 2025-03-19 / Agent 7.65.0

Added:

• Add new system.net.iface.up metric (#19853)

5.1.0 / 2024-10-31 / Agent 7.60.0

Added:

• Add mtu and speed tags to interfaces that support it (#18819)

5.0.0 / 2024-10-04 / Agent 7.59.0

Removed:

• Remove support for Python 2. (#18580)

Fixed:

• Bump the version of datadog-checks-base to 37.0.0 (#18617)

4.1.0 / 2024-10-04 / Agent 7.58.0

Fixed:

• Fix metric type in new network metrics (#18764)

4.0.0 / 2024-10-01

Changed:

• Bump minimum version of base check (#18733)

Added:

• Bump the python version from 3.11 to 3.12 (#18212)
• Upgrade psutil to 6.0.0 to fix performance issues addressed (#18688)

3.4.0 / 2024-09-05

Added:

• Add new TCP metrics for Network integration on Windows (#18294)
• Bump psutil version to 5.9.6 (#18491)

3.3.0 / 2024-03-08 / Agent 7.52.0

Added:

• Revert "Bump psutil version to 5.9.7 (#16547)" (#17112)

3.2.0 / 2024-02-16

Added:

• Bump psutil version to 5.9.7 (#16547)
• Update dependencies (#16788)

3.1.0 / 2024-01-05 / Agent 7.51.0

Added:

• Bump the Python version from py3.9 to py3.11 (#15997)

3.0.0 / 2023-08-10 / Agent 7.48.0

Changed:

• Bump the minimum base check version (#15427)

Added:

• Update generated config models (#15212)

Fixed:

• Improve debug logs for ena and ethtool network metrics (#15447)
• Fix types for generated config models (#15334)

2.10.0 / 2023-07-10 / Agent 7.47.0

Added:

• Add metric conntrack_allowance_available from Amazon ENA driver (#14634) Thanks radykal-com.

Fixed:

• Bump Python version from py3.8 to py3.9 (#14701)

2.9.4 / 2023-04-14 / Agent 7.45.0

Fixed:

• Remove distutils dependency from python 3 version of the check (#14245)

2.9.3 / 2022-12-09 / Agent 7.42.0

Fixed:

• Fix network check for solaris (#13319)

2.9.2 / 2022-10-28 / Agent 7.41.0

Fixed:

• Extract windows check to separate class (#13143)
• Test & better document collect_cx_queues (#13117)
• Exclude loopback interface from ethtool (#13042)

2.9.1 / 2022-10-04 / Agent 7.40.0

Fixed:

• Exclude loopback interface from ethtool (#13042)

2.9.0 / 2022-09-16

Added:

• Add collection of ethtool queue stats (#12023)

2.8.0 / 2022-08-05 / Agent 7.39.0

Added:

• Add collection of ethtool queue stats (#11056)

Fixed:

• Dependency updates (#12653)
• Revert "Add collection of ethtool queue stats (#11056)" (#12017)

2.7.0 / 2022-04-05 / Agent 7.36.0

Added:

• Add IP and TCP metric collection (#11170)
• Add metric_patterns options to filter all metric submission by a list of regexes (#11695)

Fixed:

• Support newer versions of click (#11746)

2.6.0 / 2022-02-19 / Agent 7.35.0

Added:

• Collect additional iface metrics: mtu, num tx/rx queue and tx queue length (#11156)
• Add pyproject.toml file (#11402)
• Upgrade psutil to 5.9.0 (#11139)

Fixed:

• Fix namespace packaging on Python 2 (#11532)

2.5.0 / 2022-01-08 / Agent 7.34.0

Added:

• Add saturation metrics for network (#10551) Thanks luhenry.
• Collect additional TcpExt metrics (#10844)

Fixed:

• Add comment to autogenerated model files (#10945)

2.4.0 / 2021-10-04 / Agent 7.32.0

Added:

• Disable generic tags (#10027)

2.3.0 / 2021-08-22 / Agent 7.31.0

Added:

• Use display_default as a fallback for default when validating config models (#9739)

2.2.0 / 2021-07-12 / Agent 7.30.0

Added:

• Add runtime configuration validation (#8960)

2.1.2 / 2021-03-07 / Agent 7.27.0

Fixed:

• Rename config spec example consumer option default to display_default (#8593)

2.1.1 / 2021-01-26 / Agent 7.26.0

Fixed:

• Ensure network check doesn't fail on importing fcntl on Windows (#8459)

2.1.0 / 2021-01-25

Added:

• Collect AWS ENA metrics (#8331)

Fixed:

• Correct default template usage (#8233)

2.0.0 / 2020-12-11 / Agent 7.25.0

Changed:

• [network] Set the collect_connection_queues parameter default value to false (#8059)

1.19.0 / 2020-10-31 / Agent 7.24.0

Added:

• Collect receive and send queue metrics (#7861)
• Collect connection state metrics on BSD/OSX (#7659)

Fixed:

• Fix network metric collection failure on CentOS (#7883)

1.18.1 / 2020-09-28 / Agent 7.23.0

Fixed:

• Fix procfs_path retrieval in network check (#7652)

1.18.0 / 2020-09-21

Added:

• Pass PROC_ROOT as environment variable to ss (#7095)
• Upgrade psutil to 5.7.2 (#7395)

1.17.0 / 2020-06-29 / Agent 7.21.0

Added:

• Add network spec (#6889)

1.16.0 / 2020-05-17 / Agent 7.20.0

Added:

• Allow optional dependency installation for all checks (#6589)

1.15.1 / 2020-04-08 / Agent 7.19.0

Fixed:

• Fix error message (#6285)

1.15.0 / 2020-04-04

Added:

• Upgrade psutil to 5.7.0 (#6243)

Fixed:

• Handle invalid type for excluded_interfaces (#5986)

1.14.0 / 2020-01-13 / Agent 7.17.0

Added:

• Use lazy logging format (#5377)

1.13.0 / 2020-01-02

Added:

• Gracefully handle /proc errors in network check (#5245)

1.12.2 / 2019-12-13 / Agent 7.16.0

Fixed:

• Bump psutil to 5.6.7 (#5210)

1.12.1 / 2019-12-02

Fixed:

• Upgrade psutil dependency to 5.6.5 (#5059)

1.12.0 / 2019-10-30

Added:

• Add use_sudo option for collecting conntrack metrics with containers (#4920)

Fixed:

• Fix examples in conf.yaml.default (#4887) Thanks q42jaap.

1.11.5 / 2019-10-11 / Agent 6.15.0

Fixed:

• Upgrade psutil dependency to 5.6.3 (#4442)

1.11.4 / 2019-08-30 / Agent 6.14.0

Fixed:

• Fix metric submission for combined connection state (#4473)

1.11.3 / 2019-08-14

Fixed:

• Drastically reduce ss output (#4346)

1.11.1 / 2019-08-02

Fixed:

• Fix proc location for conntrack files (#4150)

1.11.0 / 2019-05-14 / Agent 6.12.0

Added:

• Upgrade psutil dependency to 5.6.2 (#3684)
• Add conntrack metrics (#3624)
• Adhere to code style (#3543)

1.10.0 / 2019-03-29 / Agent 6.11.0

Added:

• Strip white space when reading from proc_conntrack_max_path (#3365)

1.9.0 / 2019-02-18 / Agent 6.10.0

Added:

• Add conntrack basic metrics to the network integration. (#2981) Thanks aerostitch.
• Upgrade psutil (#3019)
• Support Python 3 (#3005)

Fixed:

• Resolve flake8 issues (#3060)
• Use device tag instead of the deprecated device_name parameter (#2945) Thanks aerostitch.

1.8.0 / 2018-11-30 / Agent 6.8.0

Added:

• Update psutil (#2576)

Fixed:

• Use raw string literals when \ is present (#2465)

1.7.0 / 2018-10-12 / Agent 6.6.0

Added:

• Upgrade psutil (#2190)

1.6.1 / 2018-09-04 / Agent 6.5.0

Fixed:

• Retrieve no_proxy directly from the Datadog Agent's configuration (#2004)
• Add data files to the wheel package (#1727)

1.6.0 / 2018-06-07

Added:

• Add monotonic counts for some metrics (#1551) Thanks jalaziz.

1.5.0 / 2018-03-23

Added:

• Add custom tag support.

1.4.0 / 2018-02-13

Added:

• Get some host network stats when the agent is running inside a container and not in the host network namespace (#994com//pull/994)

1.3.0 / 2017-09-01

Added:

• Collects TCPRetransFail metric from /proc/net/netstat, See #697

1.2.2 / 2017-08-28

Fixed:

• Fix incorrect log.error call in BSD check (#698com//issues/698)

1.2.1 / 2017-07-18

Fixed:

• Fix TCP6 metrics overriding TCP4 metrics when monitoring non combines socket states (#501com//issues/501)

1.2.0 / 2017-06-05

Added:

• Adds metrics from /proc/net/netstat in addition to the existing ones from /proc/net/snmp (#299 and #452, thanks @cory-stripecom/cory-stripe)

1.1.0 / 2017-05-03

Fixed:

• Work around ss -atun bug not differentiating tcp and udp (#296com//issues/296)

1.0.0 / 2017-03-22

Added:

• adds network integration.