Event collection

If you haven’t yet, review the setup instructions to install the Datadog Cluster Agent and enable event collection.

1. Disable leader election in your Datadog Node Agent Daemonset by setting the leader_election variable or DD_LEADER_ELECTION environment variable to false.

2. In your Cluster Agent deployment file, set the DD_COLLECT_KUBERNETES_EVENTS and DD_LEADER_ELECTION environment variable to true:

       - name: DD_COLLECT_KUBERNETES_EVENTS
         value: "true"
       - name: DD_LEADER_ELECTION
         value: "true"
   

Enabling the leader election in this way ensures that only one Cluster Agent collects the events.

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Introducing the Datadog Cluster AgentBLOG Autoscale your Kubernetes workloads with any Datadog metricBLOG Running Cluster Checks with AutodiscoveryDOCUMENTATION Kubernetes DaemonSet SetupDOCUMENTATION Troubleshooting the Datadog Cluster AgentDOCUMENTATION