diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6850b61f2a5e41..79e130e3d1f727 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ module = [
     "confluent_kafka.*",
     "csp.middleware.*",
     "cssselect.*",
-    "datadog.*",
     "django_zero_downtime_migrations.backends.postgres.schema.*",
     "docker.*",
     "email_reply_parser.*",
diff --git a/requirements-base.txt b/requirements-base.txt
index 8358bdbe6d69b0..848151ded59d6e 100644
--- a/requirements-base.txt
+++ b/requirements-base.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ click>=8.0.4
 confluent-kafka>=2.1.1
 croniter>=1.3.10
 cssselect>=1.0.3
-datadog>=0.29.3
+datadog>=0.46.0
 django-crispy-forms>=1.14.0
 django-csp>=3.7
 django-pg-zero-downtime-migrations>=0.13
diff --git a/requirements-dev-frozen.txt b/requirements-dev-frozen.txt
index 761820e679f255..58c91166f0461b 100644
--- a/requirements-dev-frozen.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev-frozen.txt
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ croniter==1.3.10
 cryptography==39.0.1
 cssselect==1.0.3
 cssutils==2.4.0
-datadog==0.29.3
-decorator==5.1.1
+datadog==0.46.0
 dictpath==0.1.3
 distlib==0.3.4
 django==3.2.20
diff --git a/requirements-frozen.txt b/requirements-frozen.txt
index 163096463ead32..76a8e645678f99 100644
--- a/requirements-frozen.txt
+++ b/requirements-frozen.txt
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ croniter==1.3.10
 cryptography==39.0.1
 cssselect==1.0.3
 cssutils==2.4.0
-datadog==0.29.3
-decorator==5.1.1
+datadog==0.46.0
 django==3.2.20
 django-crispy-forms==1.14.0
 django-csp==3.7
diff --git a/src/sentry/metrics/datadog.py b/src/sentry/metrics/datadog.py
index fad51d14056a80..9b82bd1091aa08 100644
--- a/src/sentry/metrics/datadog.py
+++ b/src/sentry/metrics/datadog.py
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 from typing import Any, Optional, Union
 
-from datadog import ThreadStats, initialize
+from datadog import initialize
+from datadog.threadstats.base import ThreadStats
 from datadog.util.hostname import get_hostname
 
 from sentry.utils.cache import memoize
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ def __init__(self, prefix: Optional[str] = None, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
         if "host" in kwargs:
             self.host = kwargs.pop("host")
         else:
-            self.host = get_hostname()
+            self.host = get_hostname(hostname_from_config=True)
         initialize(**kwargs)
         super().__init__(prefix=prefix)
 
diff --git a/src/sentry/metrics/dogstatsd.py b/src/sentry/metrics/dogstatsd.py
index 917e6ee2f02cc0..822d0f78b23aec 100644
--- a/src/sentry/metrics/dogstatsd.py
+++ b/src/sentry/metrics/dogstatsd.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from typing import Any, Optional, Union
 
-from datadog import initialize, statsd
+from datadog import initialize
+from datadog.dogstatsd.base import statsd
 
 from .base import MetricsBackend, Tags
 
diff --git a/tests/sentry/metrics/test_datadog.py b/tests/sentry/metrics/test_datadog.py
index 0cad6e8e7fa6be..ec9035d12478cf 100644
--- a/tests/sentry/metrics/test_datadog.py
+++ b/tests/sentry/metrics/test_datadog.py
@@ -14,19 +14,31 @@ def setUp(self):
     def test_incr(self, mock_incr):
         self.backend.incr("foo", instance="bar")
         mock_incr.assert_called_once_with(
-            "sentrytest.foo", 1, sample_rate=1, tags=["instance:bar"], host=get_hostname()
+            "sentrytest.foo",
+            1,
+            sample_rate=1,
+            tags=["instance:bar"],
+            host=get_hostname(hostname_from_config=True),
         )
 
     @patch("datadog.threadstats.base.ThreadStats.timing")
     def test_timing(self, mock_timing):
         self.backend.timing("foo", 30, instance="bar")
         mock_timing.assert_called_once_with(
-            "sentrytest.foo", 30, sample_rate=1, tags=["instance:bar"], host=get_hostname()
+            "sentrytest.foo",
+            30,
+            sample_rate=1,
+            tags=["instance:bar"],
+            host=get_hostname(hostname_from_config=True),
         )
 
     @patch("datadog.threadstats.base.ThreadStats.gauge")
     def test_gauge(self, mock_gauge):
         self.backend.gauge("foo", 5, instance="bar")
         mock_gauge.assert_called_once_with(
-            "sentrytest.foo", 5, sample_rate=1, tags=["instance:bar"], host=get_hostname()
+            "sentrytest.foo",
+            5,
+            sample_rate=1,
+            tags=["instance:bar"],
+            host=get_hostname(hostname_from_config=True),
         )