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Origin detection over UDP
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Origin detection is a method to detect which pod `DogStatsD` packets are coming from in order to add the pod's tags to the tag list.
The `DogStatsD` client attaches an internal tag, `entity_id`. The value of this tag is the content of the `DD_ENTITY_ID` environment variable if found, which is the pods UID.
The `DogStatsD` client attaches an internal tag, `entity_id`. The value of this tag is the content of the `DD_ENTITY_ID` environment variable if found, which is the pod's UID.
This tag will be used by the Datadog Agent to insert container tags to the metrics. You should only `append` to the `constant_tags` list to avoid overwriting this global tag.

To enable origin detection over UDP, add the following lines to your application manifest
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