I’ve had a Home Assistant setup, using Docker, running smoothly until recently.
Now, whether I use my existing config & database, or I try to start freshly, Home Assistant starts up and immediately begins flooding its logs with messages like these:
2026-01-03 19:33:08.906 WARNING (SyncWorker_7) [datadog.dogstatsd] Error submitting packet: [Errno -3] Try again, dropping the packet and closing the socket
2026-01-03 19:33:08.908 WARNING (SyncWorker_5) [datadog.dogstatsd] Error submitting packet: [Errno -3] Try again, dropping the packet and closing the socket
2026-01-03 19:33:13.912 WARNING (SyncWorker_4) [datadog.dogstatsd] Error submitting packet: [Errno -3] Try again, dropping the packet and closing the socket
2026-01-03 19:33:13.914 WARNING (SyncWorker_2) [datadog.dogstatsd] Error submitting packet: [Errno -3] Try again, dropping the packet and closing the socket
2026-01-03 19:33:18.918 WARNING (SyncWorker_3) [datadog.dogstatsd] Error submitting packet: [Errno -3] Try again, dropping the packet and closing the socket
2026-01-03 19:33:18.919 WARNING (SyncWorker_0) [datadog.dogstatsd] Error submitting packet: [Errno -3] Try again, dropping the packet and closing the socket
2026-01-03 19:33:23.924 WARNING (SyncWorker_8) [datadog.dogstatsd] Error submitting packet: [Errno -3] Try again, dropping the packet and closing the socket
2026-01-03 19:33:23.924 WARNING (SyncWorker_6) [datadog.dogstatsd] Error submitting packet: [Errno -3] Try again, dropping the packet and closing the socket
The only thing is, it’s doing this on a brand-new installation, without any configuration set in configuration.yaml for the Datadog integration.
Is it somehow auto-detecting there’s a Datadog Agent running via Docker as well?