ddtags is not honored in v68 of Next Generation version

[brentmitchell25]

The ddtags comes across as a normal log message, but they are not parsed as tags in Datadog logs. Setting back to old version via DD_EXTENSION_VERSION=compatibility does parse correctly as expected.

[duncanista]

Hey @brentmitchell25,

Could you be more explicit in what does

ddtags comes across as a normal log message, but they are not parsed as tags in Datadog logs

And provide an example? I'm not sure I understand the bug here

[brentmitchell25]

I'll do my best without exposing much, but here is a basic example:

{
  "ddtags": "log_id:ID,type:TYPE,source:SOURCE",
  "time": "2025-01-14T19:36:41.530Z",
  "timestamp": 1736883401565,
  "status": "info"
}

log_id, message_type and source are parsed as tags as expected and searchable before the next version (tested with v65 and with compatibility mode set on v68). However with v68-next, the ddtags is all we get and can't search the tags list on the log for any of those values.

[duncanista]

Thanks – I'll make sure we take a look at this! Appreciate the fast response