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@brett0000FF brett0000FF commented Jan 28, 2026

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Fixes DOCS-8856

This PR adds documentation for configuring APM trace collection on Windows containers running on ECS. Windows containers do not have direct access to the EC2 instance metadata endpoint by default, which is required to set DD_AGENT_HOST for trace collection.

Key additions:

  • Bootstrap PowerShell script to create network routes for metadata access (credentials and metadata endpoints)
  • Generic Windows container configuration for setting DD_AGENT_HOST
  • IIS-specific configuration using datadog.json configuration file
  • Alternative Dockerfile ENTRYPOINT approach for packaging the bootstrap script

This addresses a gap where Windows ECS users had no documented path for APM setup.

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  • Ready for merge

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Add documentation for configuring APM trace collection on Windows
containers running on ECS. Windows containers require additional
network route configuration to access the EC2 metadata endpoint.

Key additions:
- Bootstrap PowerShell script to create network routes for metadata access
- Generic Windows container configuration for DD_AGENT_HOST
- IIS-specific configuration using datadog.json
- Alternative Dockerfile ENTRYPOINT approach

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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