diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 680d337f2..0dbcca70d 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ gem "carrierwave", "~> 2.2" # Upload files in your Ruby applications, map them t
 gem "carrierwave-bombshelter", "~> 0.2" # Protect your carrierwave from image bombs
 gem "cloudinary", "~> 1.23" # Client library for easily using the Cloudinary service
 gem "counter_culture", "~> 3.2" # counter_culture provides turbo-charged counter caches that are kept up-to-date
-gem "ddtrace", "~> 1.0.0" # ddtrace is Datadog’s tracing client for Ruby.
+gem "ddtrace", "~> 0.54.2" # ddtrace is Datadog’s tracing client for Ruby.
 gem "devise", "~> 4.8" # Flexible authentication solution for Rails
 gem "devise_invitable", "~> 2.0.6" # Allows invitations to be sent for joining
 gem "dogstatsd-ruby", "~> 4.8" # A client for DogStatsD, an extension of the StatsD metric server for Datadog
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 782720496..7b8db340e 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -182,12 +182,11 @@ GEM
       puma (>= 3.8.0)
       railties (>= 5.2.0)
     dante (0.2.0)
-    ddtrace (1.0.0)
-      debase-ruby_core_source (<= 0.10.15)
-      libddwaf (~> 1.3.0.0.0.a)
+    ddtrace (0.54.2)
+      debase-ruby_core_source (<= 0.10.14)
       msgpack
     dead_end (1.1.7)
-    debase-ruby_core_source (0.10.15)
+    debase-ruby_core_source (0.10.14)
     debug (1.5.0)
       irb (>= 1.3.6)
       reline (>= 0.2.7)
@@ -461,14 +460,6 @@ GEM
       kramdown (~> 2.0)
     launchy (2.5.0)
       addressable (~> 2.7)
-    libddwaf (1.3.0.0.0)
-      ffi (~> 1.0)
-    libddwaf (1.3.0.0.0-arm64-darwin)
-      ffi (~> 1.0)
-    libddwaf (1.3.0.0.0-x86_64-darwin)
-      ffi (~> 1.0)
-    libddwaf (1.3.0.0.0-x86_64-linux)
-      ffi (~> 1.0)
     libhoney (2.1.0)
       addressable (~> 2.0)
       excon
@@ -513,7 +504,7 @@ GEM
       connection_pool (>= 2)
       msgpack (>= 0.5)
       redis (>= 3.0)
-    msgpack (1.5.1)
+    msgpack (1.4.5)
     multi_json (1.15.0)
     multi_xml (0.6.0)
     multipart-post (2.1.1)
@@ -972,7 +963,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   cloudinary (~> 1.23)
   counter_culture (~> 3.2)
   cypress-rails (~> 0.5)
-  ddtrace (~> 1.0.0)
+  ddtrace (~> 0.54.2)
   debug (>= 1.0.0)
   derailed_benchmarks (~> 2.1)
   devise (~> 4.8)
diff --git a/app/controllers/stories/feeds_controller.rb b/app/controllers/stories/feeds_controller.rb
index 5e091885d..08b60a7e7 100644
--- a/app/controllers/stories/feeds_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/stories/feeds_controller.rb
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ module Stories
                  number_of_articles: 25,
                )
              end
-      Datadog::Tracing.trace("feed.query",
-                             span_type: "db",
-                             resource: "#{self.class}.#{__method__}",
-                             tags: { feed_class: feed.class.to_s.dasherize }) do
+      Datadog.tracer.trace("feed.query",
+                           span_type: "db",
+                           resource: "#{self.class}.#{__method__}",
+                           tags: { feed_class: feed.class.to_s.dasherize }) do
         # Hey, why the to_a you say?  Because the
         # LargeForemExperimental has already done this.  But the
         # weighted strategy has not.  I also don't want to alter the
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ module Stories
                  number_of_articles: 25,
                )
              end
-      Datadog::Tracing.trace("feed.query",
-                             span_type: "db",
-                             resource: "#{self.class}.#{__method__}",
-                             tags: { feed_class: feed.class.to_s.dasherize }) do
+      Datadog.tracer.trace("feed.query",
+                           span_type: "db",
+                           resource: "#{self.class}.#{__method__}",
+                           tags: { feed_class: feed.class.to_s.dasherize }) do
         # Hey, why the to_a you say?  Because the
         # LargeForemExperimental has already done this.  But the
         # weighted strategy has not.  I also don't want to alter the
diff --git a/app/services/instrumentation.rb b/app/services/instrumentation.rb
index d846f9ac5..47f1eb3e7 100644
--- a/app/services/instrumentation.rb
+++ b/app/services/instrumentation.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ module Instrumentation
   def instrument(operation, tags: [], &block)
     # TODO: (@jgaskins): Extract the knowledge of which tracing library
     # we're using, like we did with ForemStatsDriver
-    Datadog::Tracing.trace operation, tags: tags, &block
+    Datadog.tracer.trace operation, tags: tags, &block
   end
 end
diff --git a/config/initializers/datadog.rb b/config/initializers/datadog.rb
index 73fc0de4f..f221a3e20 100644
--- a/config/initializers/datadog.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/datadog.rb
@@ -1,36 +1,36 @@
 Datadog.configure do |c|
-  c.env = Rails.env
-  c.tracing.enabled = ENV["DD_API_KEY"].present?
-  c.tracing.partial_flush.enabled = true
-  c.tracing.priority_sampling = true ## Can't find this in the new api, and I think it's on by default
+  c.tracer env: Rails.env
+  c.tracer enabled: ENV["DD_API_KEY"].present?
+  c.tracer partial_flush: true
+  c.tracer priority_sampling: true
 
-  c.tracing.instrument :concurrent_ruby
-  c.tracing.instrument :excon, split_by_domain: true
-  c.tracing.instrument :faraday, split_by_domain: true
-  c.tracing.instrument :http, split_by_domain: false
-  c.tracing.instrument :httpclient, split_by_domain: false
-  c.tracing.instrument :httprb, split_by_domain: true
-  c.tracing.instrument :rails
+  c.use :concurrent_ruby
+  c.use :excon, split_by_domain: true
+  c.use :faraday, split_by_domain: true
+  c.use :http, split_by_domain: false
+  c.use :httpclient, split_by_domain: false
+  c.use :httprb, split_by_domain: true
+  c.use :rails
 
-  c.tracing.instrument :rest_client
-  c.tracing.instrument :sidekiq
+  c.use :rest_client
+  c.use :sidekiq
 
   # Multiple Redis integrations to split Redis usage per-instance to
   # accommodate having a different Redis instance for each use case.
 
-  c.tracing.instrument :redis, service_name: "redis-rpush", describes: { url: ENV.fetch("REDIS_RPUSH_URL", nil) }
-  c.tracing.instrument :redis, service_name: "redis-sessions", describes: { url: ENV.fetch("REDIS_SESSIONS_URL", nil) }
+  c.use :redis, service_name: "redis-rpush", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_RPUSH_URL"] }
+  c.use :redis, service_name: "redis-sessions", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_SESSIONS_URL"] }
 
   # Sidekiq jobs that spin up thousands of other jobs end up consuming a
   # *lot* of memory on instrumentation alone. This env var allows us to
   # enable it only when needed.
-  if ENV.fetch("DD_ENABLE_REDIS_SIDEKIQ", nil) == "true"
-    c.tracing.instrument :redis, service_name: "redis-sidekiq", describes: { url: ENV.fetch("REDIS_SIDEKIQ_URL", nil) }
+  if ENV["DD_ENABLE_REDIS_SIDEKIQ"] == "true"
+    c.use :redis, service_name: "redis-sidekiq", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_SIDEKIQ_URL"] }
   end
 
   # Generic REDIS_URL comes last, allowing it to overwrite any of the
   # above when multiple Redis use cases are backed by the same Redis URL.
-  c.tracing.instrument :redis, service_name: "redis", describes: { url: ENV.fetch("REDIS_URL", nil) }
+  c.use :redis, service_name: "redis", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_URL"] }
 end
 
 ForemStatsClient = Datadog::Statsd.new
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