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fix(feature-flags): constrain direct EVP intake origin - #12299

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Motivation

Agentless Feature Flags sends exposures and flag evaluations directly to Event Platform intake when no compatible local EVP route is available. These requests carry DD-API-KEY.

The direct client currently follows redirects, and a crafted DD_SITE value can make the parsed request host differ from event-platform-intake.<DD_SITE>. Either case can send the API key to an unintended origin.

Changes

  • Build the Event Platform URL as HTTPS with HttpUrl.Builder.
  • Require the parsed host to equal event-platform-intake.<DD_SITE>.
  • Disable redirects for direct exposure and flag-evaluation requests.
  • Cover invalid site values and HTTP 301, 302, 307, and 308 responses.

Decisions

  • Reject a direct Event Platform client whose site does not produce the exact expected host.
  • Treat every redirect response as a failed direct request.
  • Do not change /info route selection or local-to-direct fallback classification.

Validation

  • ./gradlew :communication:test --tests datadog.communication.BackendApiFactoryTest
  • ./gradlew :products:feature-flagging:feature-flagging-lib:test --tests com.datadog.featureflag.FeatureFlagBackendApiFactoryTest --tests com.datadog.featureflag.ExposureWriterTests --tests com.datadog.featureflag.FlagEvaluationWriterImplTest
  • ./gradlew :communication:spotlessCheck :communication:forbiddenApisMain :products:feature-flagging:feature-flagging-lib:spotlessCheck :products:feature-flagging:feature-flagging-lib:forbiddenApisMain
  • System-test coverage: DataDog/system-tests#7601

Route direct feature flag intake through standard HTTPS proxy settings and attach the canonical fixed-width API key fingerprint.

Environment: Datadog workspace
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🟢 Java Benchmark SLOs — All performance SLOs passed

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Startup 🟢 pass

SLO thresholds are defined here based on automatically generated metrics. A warning is raised when results are within 5% of the threshold.

PR vs. master results
Scenario Candidate master Δ (95% CI of mean)
startup:insecure-bank:iast:Agent 14.75 s 14.59 s [+0.1%; +2.1%] (maybe worse)
startup:insecure-bank:tracing:Agent 13.57 s 13.68 s [-1.6%; +0.0%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:appsec:Agent 17.54 s 17.40 s [-0.0%; +1.6%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:iast:Agent 17.41 s 17.63 s [-1.9%; -0.5%] (maybe better)
startup:petclinic:profiling:Agent 17.39 s 17.14 s [+0.4%; +2.6%] (maybe worse)
startup:petclinic:sca:Agent 17.58 s 17.45 s [-0.1%; +1.6%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:tracing:Agent 16.57 s 16.63 s [-1.5%; +0.7%] (no difference)

Commit: aee8de88 · CI Pipeline · Benchmarking Platform UI


Load and DaCapo benchmarks can be triggered manually in the GitLab pipeline. Results will appear in the Benchmarking Platform UI after completion.

Keep this PR focused on proxy-aware direct Event Platform intake and leave fingerprinting to an independent change.

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Keep the direct-intake diff free of fingerprint-only formatting artifacts.

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@leoromanovsky leoromanovsky changed the title Add proxy-aware feature flag intake authentication Add proxy-aware Feature Flags direct intake Aug 26, 2026
Use the original two-argument direct intake factory now that the unrelated fingerprint header plumbing has moved out of this PR.

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FFL-1482

FFL-1484

@leoromanovsky leoromanovsky changed the title Add proxy-aware Feature Flags direct intake fix(feature-flags): add safe agentless EVP fallback Aug 26, 2026
Reject URL authority confusion before adding DD-API-KEY.

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Read standard proxy environment variables without registering them as Datadog configuration aliases, and use the existing non-regex parser for no-proxy hosts.

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@leoromanovsky leoromanovsky added tag: ai generated Largely based on code generated by an AI or LLM comp: openfeature OpenFeature type: feature Enhancements and improvements labels Aug 27, 2026
Disable HTTP and HTTPS redirects for Feature Flags direct EVP intake so DD-API-KEY remains bound to the configured origin.

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Datadog Autotest: FAIL

NO_PROXY=* does not bypass the new intake proxy. The parser removes the wildcard before the proxy selector reads it.

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Looks good to me, and I very much appreciate the thoroughness of the testing.

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LGTM. Some of the bot comments might be worth looking further into.

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Preserve one-character NO_PROXY entries and prevent HTTPS proxy URLs from exposing credentials through configuration telemetry.

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…agentless-evp-java-hardening

# Conflicts:
#	utils/config-utils/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/ConfigSetting.java
#	utils/config-utils/src/test/java/datadog/trace/api/ConfigSettingTest.java

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Datadog Autotest: FAIL

A plain NO_PROXY domain does not cover its subdomains. This can send direct intake traffic through a proxy that blocks Datadog.

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Keep direct intake origin and redirect protections while removing proxy and runtime failover changes.

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@leoromanovsky leoromanovsky changed the title fix(feature-flags): add safe agentless EVP fallback fix(feature-flags): constrain direct EVP intake origin Sep 1, 2026
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