Often, you will want to collect mostly unstructured data that doesn't map well to tags, like fine-grained product version information.
The base class provides a method that handles such cases. The collected data is captured by [flares][datadog-agent-flare], displayed on the Agent's [status page][datadog-agent-status-page], and will eventually be queryable [in-app][].
The set_metadata method of the base class updates cached metadata values, which are then
sent by the Agent at regular intervals.
It requires 2 arguments:
name- The name of the metadata.value- The value for the metadata. Ifnamehas no transformer defined then the rawvaluewill be submitted and therefore it must be astr.
The method also accepts arbitrary keyword arguments that are forwarded to any defined transformers.
::: datadog_checks.base.utils.metadata.core.MetadataManager options: heading_level: 3 show_root_heading: false show_root_toc_entry: false members: - transform_version - transform_config