From b06b3b03a180ec6f12f09fa8511c635e215608cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Heston Hoffman <heston.hoffman@datadoghq.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:33:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add rule to flag product names not wrapped in prodname
 shortcode

Related to DOCS-15413.
---
 styles/Datadog/Prodname.yml | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 styles/Datadog/Prodname.yml

diff --git a/styles/Datadog/Prodname.yml b/styles/Datadog/Prodname.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a843d9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/styles/Datadog/Prodname.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# This file is used to flag official Datadog product names that aren't
+# wrapped in the prodname shortcode. See DOCS-15413.
+extends: existence
+message: "Wrap the product name '%s' in the prodname shortcode."
+link: "https://github.com/DataDog/documentation/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md"
+ignorecase: false
+level: suggestion
+nonword: true
+
+# Instances already wrapped by {{< prodname >}}...{{< /prodname >}} are
+# stripped before linting via a BlockIgnore in .vale.ini, so tokens here
+# don't need a negative lookahead for the shortcode itself.
+tokens:
+  - Agent Console
+  - Agent Observability
+  - AI Guard
+  - APM Distributed Tracing
+  - APM Service Observability
+  - App and API Protection
+  - Bits Chat
+  - Bits Code
+  - Bits Security Analyst
+  - Bits SRE Agents
+  - BYOC Logs
+  - Case Management
+  - Change Tracking
+  - Cloud Cost Management
+  - Cloud Networking Monitoring
+  - Cloud Observability
+  - Cloud Security
+  - Cloud SIEM
+  - Code Security
+  - Data Observability
+  - Database Monitoring
+  - Datadog Agent
+  - Datadog APM
+  - Datadog Application Performance Monitoring
+  - Datadog Apps
+  - Datadog Forms
+  - Datadog MCP Server
+  - Datadog Studio
+  - Delivery Performance
+  - Deployment Gates
+  - Dynamic Instrumentation
+  - Error Tracking
+  - Event Management
+  - Feature Flagging & Experimentation
+  - Feature Flags
+  - GPU Monitoring
+  - IDE Plugins
+  - Incident Management
+  - Infrastructure Monitoring
+  - Internal Developer Portal
+  - Log Management
+  - Network Device Monitoring
+  - Observability Pipelines
+  - On-Call
+  - PR Gates
+  - Product Analytics
+  - Pup CLI
+  - Resource Catalog
+  - Service Management
+  - Software Delivery
+  - Source Code Integration
+  - Synthetics
+  - Test Optimization
+  - Workflow Automation
+  - Workload Protection

From 12345518b78366df76d7fd39726ef17e08c7eb50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Heston Hoffman <heston.hoffman@datadoghq.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:41:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Drop Datadog Agent from prodname rule

Too pervasive as generic prose to treat as a distinct product callout.
---
 styles/Datadog/Prodname.yml | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/styles/Datadog/Prodname.yml b/styles/Datadog/Prodname.yml
index a843d9c..1c9e6fe 100644
--- a/styles/Datadog/Prodname.yml
+++ b/styles/Datadog/Prodname.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ tokens:
   - Code Security
   - Data Observability
   - Database Monitoring
-  - Datadog Agent
   - Datadog APM
   - Datadog Application Performance Monitoring
   - Datadog Apps