What changed
Producer-side tools call this non-breaking. For a consumer it is a null dereference on an unknown future date.
Affects rules on ObservabilityPipelineParseGrokProcessor reachable from 5 operations. Nothing fails at the call; it fails wherever the value is finally used, which is usually somewhere else entirely.
no longer guaranteed present
Who is affected
Code that reads Datadog's ObservabilityPipelineParseGrokProcessor objects, used by 5 Datadog operations.
Before and after
| Where | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| ObservabilityPipelineParseGrokProcessor.rules | always present | may be missing |
Code that breaks
// response.rules may now be absent or null const rules = response.rules ?? fallback;
Based on Datadog’s published API specification. How severity is decided.