Basic Agent Usage for Fedora

Overview

This page outlines the basic features of the Datadog Agent for Fedora. If you haven’t installed the Agent yet, instructions can be found in the Datadog Agent Integration documentation.

Note: Fedora 26 and above are supported.

Commands

In Agent v6 and v7, the service manager provided by the operating system is responsible for the Agent lifecycle, while other commands must be run via the Agent binary directly. In Agent v5, almost everything is done via the service manager.

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Description	Command
Start Agent as a service	`sudo service datadog-agent start`
Stop Agent running as a service	`sudo service datadog-agent stop`
Restart Agent running as a service	`sudo service datadog-agent restart`
Status of Agent service	`sudo service datadog-agent status`
Status page of running Agent	`sudo datadog-agent status`
Send flare	`sudo datadog-agent flare`
Display command usage	`sudo datadog-agent --help`
Run a check	`sudo -u dd-agent -- datadog-agent check <CHECK_NAME>`

Description	Command
Start Agent as a service	`sudo service datadog-agent start`
Stop Agent running as a service	`sudo service datadog-agent stop`
Restart Agent running as a service	`sudo service datadog-agent restart`
Status of Agent service	`sudo service datadog-agent status`
Status page of running Agent	`sudo service datadog-agent info`
Send flare	`sudo service datadog-agent flare`
Display command usage	`sudo service datadog-agent`
Run a check	`sudo -u dd-agent -- dd-agent check <CHECK_NAME>`

Note: If the service wrapper is not available on your system, use:

On upstart-based systems: sudo initctl start/stop/restart/status datadog-agent
On systemd-based systems: sudo systemctl start/stop/restart/status datadog-agent

Learn more about Service lifecycle commands

Configuration

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The configuration files and folders for the Agent are located in:

/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml

Configuration files for Integrations:

/etc/datadog-agent/conf.d/

The configuration files and folders for the Agent are located in:

/etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf

Configuration files for Integrations:

/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/

Troubleshooting

Refer to the dedicated Agent Troubleshooting documentation.

Working with the embedded Agent

The Agent contains an embedded Python environment at /opt/datadog-agent/embedded/. Common binaries such as python and pip are contained within /opt/datadog-agent/embedded/bin/.

See the instructions on how to add packages to the embedded Agent for more information.