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+<div class="alert alert-danger">Infrastructure Monitoring is a prerequisite to using APM. If you are an APM customer, do not turn off metric collection or you might lose critical telemetry and metric collection information.</div>
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 To disable payloads, you must be running Agent v6.4+. This disables metric data submission (including Custom Metrics) so that hosts stop showing up in Datadog. Follow these steps:
 
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