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[DOCS-13853] Add APM overlay documentation for Cloudcraft#35829

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[DOCS-13853] Add APM overlay documentation for Cloudcraft#35829
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Fixes DOCS-13853

Adds documentation for the new APM overlay in Cloudcraft (Datadog-integrated product). The APM overlay displays distributed APM traces as arcs between cloud resources on architecture diagrams.

Changes:

  • New page: content/en/datadog_cloudcraft/overlays/apm.md
  • Updated overlays index to include APM in the available overlays list
  • Updated Cloudcraft main page to include APM in "Next steps"
  • Added APM nav entry in the side navigation

Open questions

  • Screenshots needed: No assets provided on the ticket. Need at least one image showing the APM overlay with trace arcs, and ideally a second showing the trace side panel. Reaching out to the Cloudcraft team.
  • APM SSI setup link: The onboarding screen links to "APM SSI setup." Confirm the correct destination is /tracing/trace_collection/automatic_instrumentation/single-step-apm/.
  • Preview duration: The feature has a "Preview" badge — do we know the expected GA timeline?
  • GovCloud availability: GovCloud prod is limited to specific orgs. Should we note limited GovCloud availability, or omit as an internal rollout detail?

Merge instructions

Merge readiness:

  • Ready for merge

Additional notes

Draft PR — pending screenshot assets and answers to open questions above.

The Datadog Exporter no longer prepends otel. to
system.* and process.* metrics. Update docs to reflect
the new behavior across metrics mapping, query metrics,
runtime metrics, and Kafka metrics pages.
Remove the "How OpenTelemetry metrics appear in Datadog" section
that was restating the overview. Simplify runtime metrics prefix
sentence and remove unused link definitions.
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