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Monitoring & Observability

Datadog Agent

Infrastructure and APM monitoring SaaS agent

🐧 Linux🍎 Mac🪟 Windows
Reviewed: Tested on: Kubernetes 1.29 · Terraform 1.8 · Ubuntu 22.04

What is this?

The Datadog agent collects metrics, logs, and traces from your servers and sends them to Datadog.

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Config files for Datadog Agent

Where to create or edit the main configuration — paths below match the setup steps.

  • /etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml

    Location: Datadog agent host

    API key, site, and integrations

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Step 01

Install Datadog Agent

(01)Install Datadog Agent

Linux
1DD_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY DD_SITE=datadoghq.com bash -c "$(curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-agent/scripts/install_script_agent7.sh)"
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Step 02

Verify

(01)Verify installation

Linux
1sudo datadog-agent status
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Step 03

Common Problems

#1Datadog agent not reporting

Linux
1sudo datadog-agent status
2sudo datadog-agent flare
3sudo tail -f /var/log/datadog/agent.log