After following the Amazon ECS agent installation instructions, enable trace collection per the instructions below.
Set the following parameters in the task definition for the gcr.io/datadoghq/agent container. Set the portMappings host / container port to 8126 with protocol tcp:
containerDefinitions": [
{
"name": "datadog-agent",
"image": "gcr.io/datadoghq/agent:latest",
"cpu": 100,
"memory": 256,
"essential": true,
"portMappings": [
{
"hostPort": 8126,
"protocol": "tcp",
"containerPort": 8126
}
],
...
To ensure the Agent sends data to the right Datadog location, set the following environment variable, where <DATADOG_SITE> is :
"environment": [
...
{
"name": "DD_SITE",
"value": "<DATADOG_SITE>"
},
...
]
...
"environment": [
...
{
"name": "DD_APM_ENABLED",
"value": "true"
},
{
"name": "DD_APM_NON_LOCAL_TRAFFIC",
"value": "true"
},
...
]
...
See all environment variables available for Agent trace collection.
Assign the private IP address for each underlying instance your containers are running in your application container to the DD_AGENT_HOST environment variable. This allows your application traces to be shipped to the Agent.
The Amazon’s EC2 metadata endpoint allows discovery of the private IP address. To get the private IP address for each host, curl the following URL:
curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4The Amazon’s ECS container metadata file allows discovery of the private IP address. To get the private IP address for each host, run the following command:
cat $ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_FILE | jq .HostPrivateIPv4AddressSet the result as your Trace Agent hostname environment variable for each application container shipping to APM:
os.environ['DD_AGENT_HOST'] = <EC2_PRIVATE_IP>In cases where variables on your ECS application are set at launch time, you must set the hostname as an environment variable with DD_AGENT_HOST. Otherwise, you can set the hostname in your application’s source code for Python, Javascript, or Ruby. For Java and .NET, you can set the hostname in the ECS task. For example:
import requests
from ddtrace import tracer
def get_aws_ip():
r = requests.get('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4')
return r.text
tracer.configure(hostname=get_aws_ip())
For more examples of setting the Agent hostname in other languages, refer to the change agent hostname documentation.
const tracer = require('dd-trace').init();
const axios = require('axios');
(async () => {
const { data: hostname } = await axios.get('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4');
tracer.setUrl(`http://${hostname}:8126`);
})();
For more examples of setting the Agent hostname in other languages, refer to the change agent hostname documentation.
require 'ddtrace'
require 'net/http'
Datadog.configure do |c|
c.tracer hostname: Net::HTTP.get(URI('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4'))
end
package main
import (
"net/http"
"io/ioutil"
"gopkg.in/DataDog/dd-trace-go.v1/ddtrace/tracer"
)
resp, err := http.Get("http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4")
bodyBytes, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
host := string(bodyBytes)
if err == nil {
//set the output of the curl command to the DD_Agent_host env
os.Setenv("DD_AGENT_HOST", host)
// tell the trace agent the host setting
tracer.Start(tracer.WithAgentAddr(host))
defer tracer.Stop()
Copy this script into the entryPoint field of your ECS task definition, updating the values with your application jar and argument flags.
"entryPoint": [
"sh",
"-c",
"export DD_AGENT_HOST=$(curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4); java -javaagent:/app/dd-java-agent.jar <APPLICATION_ARG_FLAGS> -jar <APPLICATION_JAR_FILE/WAR_FILE>"
]
For more examples of setting the Agent hostname in other languages, refer to the change agent hostname documentation.
"entryPoint": [
"sh",
"-c",
"export DD_AGENT_HOST=$(curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4); dotnet ${APP_PATH}"
]
"entryPoint": [
"sh",
"-c",
"export DD_AGENT_HOST=$(curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4); php-fpm -F"
]
For Apache and mod_php in VirtualHost or server configuration file, use PassEnv to set DD_AGENT_HOST and other environment variables, such as the variables for Unified Service Tagging like the below example:
PassEnv DD_AGENT_HOST
PassEnv DD_SERVICE
PassEnv DD_ENV
PassEnv DD_VERSION
When the ini param is set as clear_env=on, in the pool workers file www.conf you must also configure environment variables to be read from the host. Use this to also set DD_AGENT_HOST and other environment variables, such as the variables for Unified Service Tagging like the below example:
env[DD_AGENT_HOST] = $DD_AGENT_HOST
env[DD_SERVICE] = $DD_SERVICE
env[DD_ENV] = $DD_ENV
env[DD_VERSION] = $DD_VERSION
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