diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/5.nix
similarity index 95%
rename from pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/default.nix
rename to pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/5.nix
index ff4a24fb781..d3c4a2af765 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/5.nix
@@ -89,7 +89,10 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   meta = {
-    description = "Event collector for the DataDog analysis service";
+    description = ''
+      Event collector for the DataDog analysis service
+      -- v5 Python implementation
+    '';
     homepage    = https://www.datadoghq.com;
     license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
     platforms   = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/6.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/6.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..be5f016c187
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/6.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildGoPackage, makeWrapper, pythonPackages, pkgconfig }:
+
+let
+  inherit (pythonPackages) python;
+
+  # keep this in sync with github.com/DataDog/agent-payload dependency
+  payloadVersion = "4.7";
+
+in buildGoPackage rec {
+  name = "datadog-agent-${version}";
+  version = "6.1.4";
+  owner   = "DataDog";
+  repo    = "datadog-agent";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    inherit owner repo;
+    rev    = "a8ee76deb11fa334470d9b8f2356214999980894";
+    sha256 = "06grcwwbfvcw1k1d4nqrasrf76qkpik1gsw60zwafllfd9ffhl1v";
+  };
+
+  subPackages = [
+    "cmd/agent"
+    "cmd/dogstatsd"
+    "cmd/py-launcher"
+    "cmd/cluster-agent"
+  ];
+  goDeps = ./deps.nix;
+  goPackagePath = "github.com/${owner}/${repo}";
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig makeWrapper ];
+  PKG_CONFIG_PATH = "${python}/lib/pkgconfig";
+
+  buildFlagsArray = let
+    ldFlags = stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep " " [
+      "-X ${goPackagePath}/pkg/version.Commit=${src.rev}"
+      "-X ${goPackagePath}/pkg/version.AgentVersion=${version}"
+      "-X ${goPackagePath}/pkg/serializer.AgentPayloadVersion=${payloadVersion}"
+      "-X ${goPackagePath}/pkg/collector/py.pythonHome=${python}"
+      "-r ${python}/lib"
+    ];
+  in [
+    "-ldflags=${ldFlags}"
+  ];
+  buildFlags = "-tags cpython";
+
+  # DataDog use paths relative to the agent binary, so fix these.
+  postPatch = ''
+    sed -e "s|PyChecksPath =.*|PyChecksPath = \"$bin/${python.sitePackages}\"|" \
+        -e "s|distPath =.*|distPath = \"$bin/share/datadog-agent\"|" \
+        -i cmd/agent/common/common_nix.go
+  '';
+
+  # Install the config files and python modules from the "dist" dir
+  # into standard paths.
+  postInstall = ''
+    mkdir -p $bin/${python.sitePackages} $bin/share/datadog-agent
+    cp -R $src/cmd/agent/dist/{conf.d,trace-agent.conf} $bin/share/datadog-agent
+    cp -R $src/cmd/agent/dist/{checks,utils,config.py} $bin/${python.sitePackages}
+
+    cp -R $src/pkg/status/dist/templates $bin/share/datadog-agent
+
+    wrapProgram "$bin/bin/agent" \
+        --set PYTHONPATH "$bin/${python.sitePackages}"
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = ''
+      Event collector for the DataDog analysis service
+      -- v6 new golang implementation.
+    '';
+    homepage    = https://www.datadoghq.com;
+    license     = licenses.bsd3;
+    platforms   = platforms.all;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ thoughtpolice domenkozar rvl ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/deps.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/deps.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7a8fc69b2a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/dd-agent/deps.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,353 @@
+[
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/DataDog/agent-payload";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/DataDog/agent-payload";
+      rev = "3b793015ecfa5b829e8a466bd7cce836891502cc";
+      sha256 = "0lg7c1whmvk4a13mrivdjfzfxqan07kvs2calgylncy7yf4szdp6";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/DataDog/gohai";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/DataDog/gohai";
+      rev = "d80d0f562a71fa2380fbeccc93ba5a2e325606e4";
+      sha256 = "1frslms7f5i8dc8n0v9pb64mf4zdj3q2c005qxajl8j8i9nhj7yb";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/DataDog/mmh3";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/DataDog/mmh3";
+      rev = "2cfb68475274527a10701355c739f31dd404718c";
+      sha256 = "09jgzxi08pkxllxk3f5qwipz96jxrw5v035fj2bkid1d4akn8y0b";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/beevik/ntp";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/beevik/ntp";
+      rev = "cb3dae3a7588ae35829eb5724df611cd75152fba";
+      sha256 = "0nc6f7d0xw23y18z9qxrmm8kvnywihassyk706mn9v4makmhalnz";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/cihub/seelog";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/cihub/seelog";
+      rev = "f561c5e57575bb1e0a2167028b7339b3a8d16fb4";
+      sha256 = "0r3228hvgljgpaggj6b9mvxfsizfw25q2c1761wsvcif8gz49cvl";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/docker/docker";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/docker/docker";
+      rev = "092cba3727bb9b4a2f0e922cd6c0f93ea270e363";
+      sha256 = "0l9kjibnpwcgk844sibxk9ppyqniw9r0np1mzp95f8f461jb0iar";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/dsnet/compress";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/dsnet/compress";
+      rev = "cc9eb1d7ad760af14e8f918698f745e80377af4f";
+      sha256 = "159liclywmyb6zx88ga5gn42hfl4cpk1660zss87fkx31hdq9fgx";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/fatih/color";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/fatih/color";
+      rev = "507f6050b8568533fb3f5504de8e5205fa62a114";
+      sha256 = "0k1v9dkhrxiqhg48yqkwzpd7x40xx38gv2pgknswbsy4r8w644i7";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify";
+      rev = "c2828203cd70a50dcccfb2761f8b1f8ceef9a8e9";
+      sha256 = "07va9crci0ijlivbb7q57d2rz9h27zgn2fsm60spjsqpdbvyrx4g";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/go-ini/ini";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/go-ini/ini";
+      rev = "bda519ae5f4cbc60d391ff8610711627a08b86ae";
+      sha256 = "05vcc3ssxyrk8g3sr4gs888vllgjqfq11na63qz2pvaiy7m0rqrs";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/gogo/protobuf";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/gogo/protobuf";
+      rev = "1ef32a8b9fc3f8ec940126907cedb5998f6318e4";
+      sha256 = "0zk2n0n35ksskr5cd83k5k8wg21ckrcggjy88bym2s21ngj5w4fh";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/golang/snappy";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/golang/snappy";
+      rev = "553a641470496b2327abcac10b36396bd98e45c9";
+      sha256 = "0kssxnih1l722hx9219c7javganjqkqhvl3i0hp0hif6xm6chvqk";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/gorilla/mux";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/gorilla/mux";
+      rev = "ded0c29b24f96f46cf349e6701b099db601cf8ec";
+      sha256 = "125dxfxs7his95fd2r28bn1rpb78pldfgm3lmw84ha1c0v5gfh33";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/hashicorp/hcl";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl";
+      rev = "ef8a98b0bbce4a65b5aa4c368430a80ddc533168";
+      sha256 = "1qalfsc31fra7hcw2lc3s20aj7al62fq3j5fn5kga3mg99b82nyr";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/kardianos/osext";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/kardianos/osext";
+      rev = "ae77be60afb1dcacde03767a8c37337fad28ac14";
+      sha256 = "056dkgxrqjj5r18bnc3knlpgdz5p3yvp12y4y978hnsfhwaqvbjz";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/magiconair/properties";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/magiconair/properties";
+      rev = "2c9e9502788518c97fe44e8955cd069417ee89df";
+      sha256 = "1w0rl9rla61m0qbha75jg48yiq1vs91sfy96rgqa6nags9v9b1rl";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/mholt/archiver";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/mholt/archiver";
+      rev = "e4ef56d48eb029648b0e895bb0b6a393ef0829c3";
+      sha256 = "1krxyh6iq0s0rwhz7gg6dn795j9qq64rsgq9nivav7fhrqpgr6hb";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure";
+      rev = "00c29f56e2386353d58c599509e8dc3801b0d716";
+      sha256 = "1vw8fvhax0d567amgvxr7glcl12lvzg2sbzs007q5k5bbwn1szyb";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/nwaples/rardecode";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/nwaples/rardecode";
+      rev = "e06696f847aeda6f39a8f0b7cdff193b7690aef6";
+      sha256 = "1aj7l8ii7hxnn3q4wzxlx3f92b1aspck6ncyqgb4h2g228phcibw";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/patrickmn/go-cache";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/patrickmn/go-cache";
+      rev = "a3647f8e31d79543b2d0f0ae2fe5c379d72cedc0";
+      sha256 = "10020inkzrm931r4bixf8wqr9n39wcrb78vfyxmbvjavvw4zybgs";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/pelletier/go-toml";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/pelletier/go-toml";
+      rev = "66540cf1fcd2c3aee6f6787dfa32a6ae9a870f12";
+      sha256 = "1n8na0yg90gm0rpifmzrby5r385vvd62cdam3ls7ssy02bjvfw15";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/pierrec/lz4";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/pierrec/lz4";
+      rev = "ed8d4cc3b461464e69798080a0092bd028910298";
+      sha256 = "0flsn2ka108lb63gkxfzl90bkhndh1znnscv4v1k6j5h2s3zksls";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/pierrec/xxHash";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/pierrec/xxHash";
+      rev = "a0006b13c722f7f12368c00a3d3c2ae8a999a0c6";
+      sha256 = "1hf7hqrqx0cbgx0alfwnqs0mrxg9rnwsijn5d0lv06w6vzqbvnzj";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/shirou/gopsutil";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil";
+      rev = "57f370e13068146efe1cb7129f79e5d51da8a242";
+      sha256 = "1ij0bbnfjj65afin8vhccr3cxvg6r0awmvcvb2ilza5wbbsslggb";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/spf13/afero";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/spf13/afero";
+      rev = "63644898a8da0bc22138abf860edaf5277b6102e";
+      sha256 = "13piahaq4vw1y1sklq5scrsflqx0a8hzmdqfz1fy4871kf2gl8qw";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/spf13/cast";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/spf13/cast";
+      rev = "8965335b8c7107321228e3e3702cab9832751bac";
+      sha256 = "177bk7lq40jbgv9p9r80aydpaccfk8ja3a7jjhfwiwk9r1pa4rr2";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/spf13/cobra";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/spf13/cobra";
+      rev = "ef82de70bb3f60c65fb8eebacbb2d122ef517385";
+      sha256 = "1q1nsx05svyv9fv3fy6xv6gs9ffimkyzsfm49flvl3wnvf1ncrkd";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/spf13/jwalterweatherman";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/spf13/jwalterweatherman";
+      rev = "7c0cea34c8ece3fbeb2b27ab9b59511d360fb394";
+      sha256 = "132p84i20b9s5r6fs597lsa6648vd415ch7c0d018vm8smzqpd0h";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/spf13/pflag";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/spf13/pflag";
+      rev = "583c0c0531f06d5278b7d917446061adc344b5cd";
+      sha256 = "0nr4mdpfhhk94hq4ymn5b2sxc47b29p1akxd8b0hx4dvdybmipb5";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/spf13/viper";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/spf13/viper";
+      rev = "8dc2790b029dc41e2b8ff772c63c26adbb1db70d";
+      sha256 = "147zq6v34pgb79r4m0m2mwm8739jxwawxs8mpqvvhq7gxwvhng40";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/stretchr/testify";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/stretchr/testify";
+      rev = "c679ae2cc0cb27ec3293fea7e254e47386f05d69";
+      sha256 = "1rrdn7k83j492rzhqwkh6956sj8m2nbk44d7r1xa9nsn3hfwj691";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/ulikunitz/xz";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/ulikunitz/xz";
+      rev = "0c6b41e72360850ca4f98dc341fd999726ea007f";
+      sha256 = "0a6l7sp67ipxim093qh6fvw8knbxj24l7bj5lykcddi5gwfi78n3";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/urfave/negroni";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/urfave/negroni";
+      rev = "22c5532ea862c34fdad414e90f8cc00b4f6f4cab";
+      sha256 = "0jxd10cr3imm96xa01mdgyad4nq6mc7yr49z830fv3vywfr7bac8";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "golang.org/x/net";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://go.googlesource.com/net";
+      rev = "640f4622ab692b87c2f3a94265e6f579fe38263d";
+      sha256 = "097m4qhcljhp180171j5fjhq4740iirfkkajfd7yrxqhp4s9hljx";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "golang.org/x/sys";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://go.googlesource.com/sys";
+      rev = "6f686a352de66814cdd080d970febae7767857a3";
+      sha256 = "1z3pwvxlzq8kghjdsd9xmf184iiz13h8h66ipp626k4rc7kydr03";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "golang.org/x/text";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://go.googlesource.com/text";
+      rev = "7922cc490dd5a7dbaa7fd5d6196b49db59ac042f";
+      sha256 = "06sicjc24hv7v9p1l6psaq87w4lycx3mjixd6gsd1wnd4jhqvlnr";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "gopkg.in/yaml.v2";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://gopkg.in/yaml.v2";
+      rev = "5420a8b6744d3b0345ab293f6fcba19c978f1183";
+      sha256 = "0dwjrs2lp2gdlscs7bsrmyc5yf6mm4fvgw71bzr9mv2qrd2q73s1";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/sbinet/go-python";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/sbinet/go-python";
+      rev = "6d13f941744b9332d6ed00dc2cd2722acd79a47e";
+      sha256 = "0x5q4nyv6gck9q33g54gy2ajmyjksxjmzh0jfqqn97jpgf4qfaym";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    goPackagePath = "github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk";
+    fetch = {
+      type = "git";
+      url = "https://github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk";
+      rev = "63d60e9d0dbc60cf9164e6510889b0db6683d98c";
+      sha256 = "1hpq6sjr6l1h25x68mz13q7sd52dv1mjfxbl5p7m3j7cv85khnvc";
+    };
+  }
+]
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 35f10c345f3..475ddb722e3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -15672,7 +15672,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   dbvisualizer = callPackage ../applications/misc/dbvisualizer {};
 
-  dd-agent = callPackage ../tools/networking/dd-agent { };
+  dd-agent = callPackage ../tools/networking/dd-agent/5.nix { };
+  datadog-agent = callPackage ../tools/networking/dd-agent/6.nix { };
 
   ddgr = callPackage ../applications/misc/ddgr { };