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rather than diverging even further from upstream, have you tried following the docs and setting configuration.version?

https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/trace_collection/automatic_instrumentation/dd_libraries/ruby/

I looked into the code, it seems that these are treated the same:

• configuration.version = tags.version - https://github.com/Appboy/dd-trace-rb/blob/deployed-in-platform/lib/datadog/core/configuration/settings.rb#L674
• tags.version = configuration.version - https://github.com/Appboy/dd-trace-rb/blob/deployed-in-platform/lib/datadog/core/configuration/settings.rb#L663
• in both cases, the version tag will be deleted if service != default_service.

But it should be low effort to test it out, so I created a PR for this - https://github.com/Appboy/platform/pull/99481

requests with malformed version

https://app.datadoghq.com/dashboard/gkm-sig-eyx/platform-requests-processed-by-version?fromUser=true&refresh_mode=sliding&tpl_var_env%5B0%5D=d-use-1&view=spans&from_ts=1748975233646&to_ts=1748976133646&live=true

https://buildkite.com/braze/develop-platform-package/builds?branch=develop

still seeing requests with malformed version after deploying https://github.com/Appboy/platform/pull/99481

DataDog#4707 issue filed.