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- **`pprof`**: Adds the pprof extension for profiling capabilities
- **`zpages`**: Adds the zpages extension for debugging information
- **`health_check`**: Adds the health check extension for health monitoring
- **`ddflare`**: Adds the Datadog flare extension for diagnostic information
- **`ddflare`**: Adds the Datadog flare extension for diagnostic information, it should not be used together with `datadog`
- **`datadog`**: Adds the OSS Datadog extension to send Fleet Automation data, it should not be used together with `ddflare`

### Configuration Examples

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### Extensions

The converter looks for the `pprof`, `health_check`, `zpages` and `datadog` extensions. If these are already defined in the service pipeline, it makes no changes. If any of these extensions are not defined, it will add the extensions config (name: `<extension_name>/dd-autoconfigured`) and add the component in the services extension pipeline.
The converter looks for the `pprof`, `health_check`, `zpages`, `ddflare` and `datadog` extensions. If these are already defined in the service pipeline, it makes no changes. If any of these extensions are not defined, it will add the extensions config (name: `<extension_name>/dd-autoconfigured`) and add the component in the services extension pipeline.

### Infra Attributes Processor

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- [pprof](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/extension/pprofextension/README.md): Enables collecting collector profiles at a defined endpoint.
- [health_check](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/extension/healthcheckextension/README.md): Enables an HTTP url that can be probed to check the status of the OpenTelemetry Collector.
- [zpages](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/extension/zpagesextension/README.md): Enables an extension that serves zPages, an HTTP endpoint that provides live data for debugging different components
- [datadog](../extension/README.md): Enables otel-agent information to be collected in the datadog-agent flare.
- [ddflare](../extension/README.md): Enables otel-agent information to be collected in the datadog-agent flare.
- [datadog](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/extension/datadogextension): Enables collector configuration and build info to be viewed in both Datadog Infrastructure Monitoring and Fleet Automation.

### Prometheus Receiver

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