Agent 5 Configuration Files

Overview

This page covers Agent 5 configuration files. Datadog recommends installing or upgrading to Agent 7 for the latest features. For information on installing the latest version of the Agent, follow the Agent 7 Installation Instructions. For information on upgrading to Agent 7 from an earlier version, see Upgrade to Datadog Agent v7.

Agent main configuration file

PlatformCommand
Linux/etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf
macOS~/.datadog-agent/datadog.conf
Windows Server 2008, Vista and newer%ProgramData%\Datadog\datadog.conf
Windows Server 2003, XP or older\\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Datadog\datadog.conf

See the sample config_template.yaml file for all available configuration options.

Agent configuration directory

PlatformCommand
Linux/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/
CentOS/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/
Debian/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/
Fedora/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/
macOS~/.datadog-agent/conf.d/
RedHat/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/
Source/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/
Suse/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/
Ubuntu/etc/dd-agent/conf.d/
Windows Server 2008, Vista and newer%ProgramData%\Datadog\conf.d
Windows Server 2003, XP or older\\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Datadog\conf.d

JMX configuration file

JMX Agent checks have an additional metrics.yaml file in their configuration folder. It is a list of all the beans that the Datadog Agent collects by default. This way, you do not need to list all of the beans manually when you configure a check through Docker labels or k8s annotations.