diff --git a/charts/datadog/CHANGELOG.md b/charts/datadog/CHANGELOG.md
index e97be723a..4f321d683 100644
--- a/charts/datadog/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/charts/datadog/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Datadog changelog
 
+## 3.87.0
+
+* Launch `otel-agent` with the `--core-config` switch pointing to the main agent configuration. Note that this affects the OTel Agent beta images, early beta image releases with version tag `<7.59.0-v.1.2.0` will experience issues and should remain on older helm chart versions for their deployments. For regular users not deploying the `otel-agent` beta images, this should be a NOOP.   
+
 ## 3.86.0
 
 * Add `delete` permission for `datadog-webhook` Admission Registration RBACs.
diff --git a/charts/datadog/Chart.yaml b/charts/datadog/Chart.yaml
index 527f24ac7..e498fa421 100644
--- a/charts/datadog/Chart.yaml
+++ b/charts/datadog/Chart.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 apiVersion: v1
 name: datadog
-version: 3.86.0
+version: 3.87.0
 appVersion: "7"
 description: Datadog Agent
 keywords:
diff --git a/charts/datadog/README.md b/charts/datadog/README.md
index d472512bc..ed41fc206 100644
--- a/charts/datadog/README.md
+++ b/charts/datadog/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Datadog
 
-![Version: 3.86.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-3.86.0-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: 7](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-7-informational?style=flat-square)
+![Version: 3.87.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-3.87.0-informational?style=flat-square) ![AppVersion: 7](https://img.shields.io/badge/AppVersion-7-informational?style=flat-square)
 
 [Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/) is a hosted infrastructure monitoring platform. This chart adds the Datadog Agent to all nodes in your cluster via a DaemonSet. It also optionally depends on the [kube-state-metrics chart](https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-state-metrics). For more information about monitoring Kubernetes with Datadog, please refer to the [Datadog documentation website](https://docs.datadoghq.com/agent/basic_agent_usage/kubernetes/).
 
diff --git a/charts/datadog/templates/_container-otel-agent.yaml b/charts/datadog/templates/_container-otel-agent.yaml
index 16e56bbe2..193748157 100644
--- a/charts/datadog/templates/_container-otel-agent.yaml
+++ b/charts/datadog/templates/_container-otel-agent.yaml
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
   image: "{{ include "image-path" (dict "root" .Values "image" .Values.agents.image) }}"
   imagePullPolicy: {{ .Values.agents.image.pullPolicy }}
   {{- if eq .Values.targetSystem "linux" }}
-  command: ["otel-agent", "--config={{ template "datadog.otelconfPath" . }}/otel-config.yaml"]
+  command: ["otel-agent", "--config={{ template "datadog.otelconfPath" . }}/otel-config.yaml", "--core-config={{ template "datadog.confPath" .  }}/datadog.yaml"]
   {{- end -}}
   {{- if eq .Values.targetSystem "windows" }}
-  command: ["otel-agent", "-foreground", "-config={{ template "datadog.otelconfPath" . }}/datadog.yaml"]
+  command: ["otel-agent", "-foreground", "-config={{ template "datadog.otelconfPath" . }}/otel-config.yaml", "--core-config={{ template "datadog.confPath" .  }}/datadog.yaml"]
   {{- end -}}
 {{ include "generate-security-context" (dict "securityContext" .Values.agents.containers.otelAgent.securityContext "targetSystem" .Values.targetSystem "seccomp" "" "kubeversion" .Capabilities.KubeVersion.Version) | indent 2 }}
   resources: