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Unix Domain sockets (UDS) error when starting profiler #9400

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@amuraco

Tracer Version(s)

Starting in 1.52.1

Java Version(s)

24.0.2

JVM Vendor

Amazon Corretto

Bug Report

When starting a Java app with the profiler enabled and Unix domain sockets are configured -Ddd.trace.agent.url=unix:///var/run/datadog/apm.socket, the following error occurs:

[dd.trace 2025-08-21 03:20:49:154 +0000] [dd-task-scheduler] INFO datadog.trace.agent.core.StatusLogger - DATADOG TRACER CONFIGURATION {"version":"1.52.1~6b6db17410","os_name":"Linux","os_version":"5.14.0-503.21.1.el9_5.x86_64","architecture":"amd64","lang":"jvm","lang_version":"24.0.2","jvm_vendor":"Amazon.com Inc.","jvm_version":"24.0.2+12-FR","java_class_version":"68.0","http_nonProxyHosts":"null","http_proxyHost":"null","enabled":true,"service":"adserver-external-production-4969","agent_url":"unix:///var/run/datadog/apm.socket","agent_unix_domain_socket":"/var/run/datadog/apm.socket","agent_error":true,"debug":false,"trace_propagation_style_extract":["datadog","tracecontext","baggage"],"trace_propagation_style_inject":["datadog","tracecontext","baggage"],"analytics_enabled":false,"priority_sampling_enabled":true,"logs_correlation_enabled":true,"profiling_enabled":true,"remote_config_enabled":true,"debugger_enabled":false,"debugger_exception_enabled":false,"debugger_span_origin_enabled":false,"debugger_distributed_debugger_enabled":false,"appsec_enabled":"ENABLED_INACTIVE","rasp_enabled":true,"telemetry_enabled":true,"telemetry_dependency_collection_enabled":true,"telemetry_log_collection_enabled":true,"dd_version":"","health_checks_enabled":true,"configuration_file":"no config file present","runtime_id":"b88ebcb9-2eee-4d72-857c-041082502a62","logging_settings":{"levelInBrackets":false,"dateTimeFormat":"'[dd.trace 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss:SSS Z']'","logFile":"System.err","configurationFile":"simplelogger.properties","showShortLogName":false,"showDateTime":true,"showLogName":true,"jsonEnabled":false,"showThreadName":true,"defaultLogLevel":"INFO","warnLevelString":"WARN","embedException":false},"cws_enabled":false,"cws_tls_refresh":5000,"datadog_profiler_enabled":true,"datadog_profiler_safe":true,"datadog_profiler_enabled_overridden":false,"data_streams_enabled":false}
at java.instrument/sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.loadClassAndStartAgent(InstrumentationImpl.java:544)
at java.instrument/sun.instrument.InstrumentationImpl.loadClassAndCallPremain(InstrumentationImpl.java:556)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Expected URL scheme 'http' or 'https' but was 'unix'
at datadog.okhttp3.HttpUrl$Builder.parse(HttpUrl.java:1328)
at datadog.okhttp3.HttpUrl.get(HttpUrl.java:916)
at com.datadog.profiling.uploader.ProfileUploader.(ProfileUploader.java:151)
at com.datadog.profiling.uploader.ProfileUploader.(ProfileUploader.java:134)
at com.datadog.profiling.agent.ProfilingAgent.run(ProfilingAgent.java:131)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:104)
... 16 more
[dd.trace 2025-08-21 03:20:48:794 +0000] [main] SEND_TELEMETRY datadog.trace.bootstrap.Agent - Throwable thrown while starting profiling agent
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:119)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:565)
at datadog.trace.bootstrap.Agent.startProfilingAgent(Agent.java:1252)
at datadog.trace.bootstrap.Agent.start(Agent.java:379)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:104)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:565)
at datadog.trace.bootstrap.AgentBootstrap.agentmainImpl(AgentBootstrap.java:159)
at datadog.trace.bootstrap.AgentBootstrap.agentmain(AgentBootstrap.java:73)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:104)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:565)
at datadog.trace.bootstrap.AgentPreCheck.continueBootstrap(AgentPreCheck.java:166)
at datadog.trace.bootstrap.AgentPreCheck.agentmain(AgentPreCheck.java:24)
at datadog.trace.bootstrap.AgentPreCheck.premain(AgentPreCheck.java:17)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:104)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:565)

This appears to have been introduced by #9339 The 'http://' was previously hardcoded to avoid this error, per similar bug: #7165 & Fix: #7166

Expected Behavior

Java Profiler agent to startup without error when configured with Unix Domain Sockets

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