Datadog Trace log is not correctly formatted in v1.31.0

[amolari]

Environment

• Telemetry Streaming Version: 1.31.0
• BIG-IP Version: 14.1.5.1

Summary

The trace file /var/tmp/telemetry/Telemetry_Consumer.My_Metrics_Namespace::My_Datadog_Metrics_Consumer is not correctly formatted (as in previous versions such as 1.25.0), as the payload is not json but a string with escaped double-quotes.

Steps To Reproduce

A declaration with a datadog consumer having set "trace": true

Expected Behavior

[
    {
        "data": {
            "url": "https://api.datadoghq.eu/api/v1/series",
            "data": {
                "series": [
                    {
                        "host": "hostname.com",
                        "interval": 300,
                        "metric": "f5.system.configReady",
                        "points": [
                            [
                                1661872544.865,
                                0
                            ]
                        ],
                        "tags": [
[...]

Actual Behavior

content of the trace file:

[
    {
        "data": {
            "data": [
                "{\"series\":[{\"interval\":300,\"metric\":\"f5.system.cpu\",\"points\":[{\"timestamp\":1661954376,\"value\":0}],\"tags\":[\"hostname: 
[...]
\"type\":3}]}"
            ],
            "host": "api.datadoghq.eu",
            "httpAgentOpts": {},
            "type": "metrics",
            "uri": "/api/v2/series"
        },
        "timestamp": "2022-08-31T13:59:36.739Z"
    }
]

[sunitharonan]

Thank you for your feedback. I have added this issue to our internal product backlog as TS-700.