diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index acc6e0e0a9ae..a2a542678ad7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 - `k8seventsreceiver`: Add Api_version and resource_version (#8539)
 - `dynatraceexporter`: add multi-instance deployment note to README.md (#8848)
 - `resourcedetectionprocessor`: Add attribute allowlist (#8547)
+- `datadogexporter`:  Metrics payload data and Sketches payload data will be logged if collector is started in debug mode (#8929)
 
 ### 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑
 
diff --git a/exporter/datadogexporter/metrics_exporter.go b/exporter/datadogexporter/metrics_exporter.go
index 3a19f4a6f5d4..3f5b33f0683e 100644
--- a/exporter/datadogexporter/metrics_exporter.go
+++ b/exporter/datadogexporter/metrics_exporter.go
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ func (exp *metricsExporter) PushMetricsData(ctx context.Context, md pdata.Metric
 
 	err = nil
 	if len(ms) > 0 {
+		exp.params.Logger.Debug("exporting payload", zap.Any("metric", ms))
 		err = multierr.Append(
 			err,
 			exp.retrier.DoWithRetries(ctx, func(context.Context) error {
@@ -195,6 +196,7 @@ func (exp *metricsExporter) PushMetricsData(ctx context.Context, md pdata.Metric
 	}
 
 	if len(sl) > 0 {
+		exp.params.Logger.Debug("exporting sketches payload", zap.Any("sketches", sl))
 		err = multierr.Append(
 			err,
 			exp.retrier.DoWithRetries(ctx, func(ctx context.Context) error {