diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 805cc1ecefb48..a0567530629cf 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -912,7 +912,8 @@ component-validation-tests = [
   "sources-http_server",
   "sinks-http",
   "sinks-splunk_hec",
-  "sources-splunk_hec"
+  "sources-splunk_hec",
+  "sinks-datadog_logs",
 ]
 
 # Grouping together features for benchmarks. We exclude the API client due to it causing the build process to run out
diff --git a/src/components/validation/runner/mod.rs b/src/components/validation/runner/mod.rs
index 76f88f2c03297..704444ded4c21 100644
--- a/src/components/validation/runner/mod.rs
+++ b/src/components/validation/runner/mod.rs
@@ -521,6 +521,10 @@ fn spawn_component_topology(
     let mut config = config_builder
         .build()
         .expect("config should not have any errors");
+
+    // It's possible we could extend the framework to allow specifying logic to
+    // handle that, but I don't see much value currently since the healthcheck is
+    // not enforced for components, and it doesn't impact the internal telemetry.
     config.healthchecks.enabled = false;
 
     _ = std::thread::spawn(move || {
diff --git a/src/sinks/datadog/logs/config.rs b/src/sinks/datadog/logs/config.rs
index 0163b9f6633a0..fe2f5f8306f44 100644
--- a/src/sinks/datadog/logs/config.rs
+++ b/src/sinks/datadog/logs/config.rs
@@ -2,28 +2,30 @@ use std::{convert::TryFrom, sync::Arc};
 
 use indoc::indoc;
 use tower::ServiceBuilder;
-use vector_lib::configurable::configurable_component;
-use vector_lib::{config::proxy::ProxyConfig, schema::meaning};
+
+use vector_lib::{
+    codecs::{JsonSerializerConfig, MetricTagValues},
+    config::proxy::ProxyConfig,
+    configurable::configurable_component,
+    schema::meaning,
+};
 use vrl::value::Kind;
 
-use super::{service::LogApiRetry, sink::LogSinkBuilder};
-use crate::common::datadog;
 use crate::{
-    codecs::Transformer,
-    config::{AcknowledgementsConfig, GenerateConfig, Input, SinkConfig, SinkContext},
+    codecs::EncodingConfigWithFraming,
+    common::datadog,
     http::HttpClient,
     schema,
     sinks::{
         datadog::{logs::service::LogApiService, DatadogCommonConfig, LocalDatadogCommonConfig},
-        util::{
-            http::RequestConfig, service::ServiceBuilderExt, BatchConfig, Compression,
-            SinkBatchSettings,
-        },
-        Healthcheck, VectorSink,
+        prelude::*,
+        util::http::RequestConfig,
     },
     tls::{MaybeTlsSettings, TlsEnableableConfig},
 };
 
+use super::{service::LogApiRetry, sink::LogSinkBuilder};
+
 // The Datadog API has a hard limit of 5MB for uncompressed payloads. Above this
 // threshold the API will toss results. We previously serialized Events as they
 // came in -- a very CPU intensive process -- and to avoid that we only batch up
@@ -182,6 +184,48 @@ impl SinkConfig for DatadogLogsConfig {
     }
 }
 
+impl ValidatableComponent for DatadogLogsConfig {
+    fn validation_configuration() -> ValidationConfiguration {
+        let endpoint = "http://127.0.0.1:9005".to_string();
+        let config = Self {
+            local_dd_common: LocalDatadogCommonConfig {
+                endpoint: Some(endpoint.clone()),
+                default_api_key: Some("unused".to_string().into()),
+                ..Default::default()
+            },
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+
+        let encoding = EncodingConfigWithFraming::new(
+            None,
+            JsonSerializerConfig::new(MetricTagValues::Full).into(),
+            config.encoding.clone(),
+        );
+
+        let logs_endpoint = format!("{endpoint}/api/v2/logs");
+
+        let external_resource = ExternalResource::new(
+            ResourceDirection::Push,
+            HttpResourceConfig::from_parts(
+                http::Uri::try_from(&logs_endpoint).expect("should not fail to parse URI"),
+                None,
+            ),
+            encoding,
+        );
+
+        ValidationConfiguration::from_sink(
+            Self::NAME,
+            vec![ComponentTestCaseConfig::from_sink(
+                config,
+                None,
+                Some(external_resource),
+            )],
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+register_validatable_component!(DatadogLogsConfig);
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
     use super::super::config::DatadogLogsConfig;
diff --git a/src/sources/http_client/client.rs b/src/sources/http_client/client.rs
index 0466917cbdd1b..ae399b6e9601b 100644
--- a/src/sources/http_client/client.rs
+++ b/src/sources/http_client/client.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ use crate::{
     codecs::{Decoder, DecodingConfig},
     config::{SourceConfig, SourceContext},
     http::Auth,
-    register_validatable_component,
     serde::{default_decoding, default_framing_message_based},
     sources,
     sources::util::{
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ use crate::{
     tls::{TlsConfig, TlsSettings},
     Result,
 };
-use crate::{components::validation::*, sources::util::http_client};
+use crate::{components::validation::prelude::*, sources::util::http_client};
 use vector_lib::codecs::{
     decoding::{DeserializerConfig, FramingConfig},
     StreamDecodingError,
diff --git a/src/sources/http_server.rs b/src/sources/http_server.rs
index 255c4231d7bfd..32a1961348376 100644
--- a/src/sources/http_server.rs
+++ b/src/sources/http_server.rs
@@ -22,14 +22,13 @@ use vector_lib::{
 
 use crate::{
     codecs::{Decoder, DecodingConfig},
-    components::validation::*,
+    components::validation::prelude::*,
     config::{
         GenerateConfig, Resource, SourceAcknowledgementsConfig, SourceConfig, SourceContext,
         SourceOutput,
     },
     event::{Event, Value},
     http::KeepaliveConfig,
-    register_validatable_component,
     serde::{bool_or_struct, default_decoding},
     sources::util::{
         http::{add_query_parameters, HttpMethod},
diff --git a/tests/validation/components/sinks/datadog_logs.yaml b/tests/validation/components/sinks/datadog_logs.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..cf0f912d160a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/validation/components/sinks/datadog_logs.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+- name: happy path
+  expectation: success
+  events:
+    - log: simple message 1
+    - log: simple message 2
+    - log: simple message 3
+- name: sad path
+  expectation: failure
+  events:
+    - external_resource_rejects:
+        log: simple message downstream rejects