One-step install

The one-step command installs the APT packages for the Datadog Agent and prompts you for your password. If the Agent is not already installed on your machine and you don’t want it to start automatically after the installation, prepend DD_INSTALL_ONLY=true to the command before running it.

Run the following command, replacing MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

DD_API_KEY=MY_API_KEY bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/dd-agent/master/packaging/datadog-agent/source/install_agent.sh)"

Multi-step install

1. Set up APT so it can download through HTTPS and install curl and gnupg:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https curl gnupg
   

2. Set up the Datadog Debian repo on your system and create a Datadog archive keyring:

   sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.datadoghq.com/ stable main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/datadog.list"
   sudo touch /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg
   sudo chmod a+r /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg
   
   curl https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_APT_KEY_CURRENT.public | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg --import --batch
   curl https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_APT_KEY_C0962C7D.public | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg --import --batch
   curl https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_APT_KEY_F14F620E.public | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg --import --batch
   curl https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_APT_KEY_382E94DE.public | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg --import --batch
   

3. If running Debian 8 or earlier, copy the keyring to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d:

   sudo cp -a /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
   

4. Update your local APT repo and install the Agent:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install datadog-agent datadog-signing-keys
   

5. Run the following command to copy the example config into place. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   sudo sh -c "sed 's/api_key:.*/api_key:MY_API_KEY /' /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf.example > /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf"
   

6. Start the Agent:

   sudo /etc/init.d/datadog-agent start
   

One-step install

The one-step command installs the APT packages for the Datadog Agent and prompts you for your password. If the Agent is not already installed on your machine and you don’t want it to start automatically after the installation, prepend DD_INSTALL_ONLY=true to the command before running it.

Run the following command, replacing MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

DD_API_KEY=MY_API_KEY bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/dd-agent/master/packaging/datadog-agent/source/install_agent.sh)"

Multi-step install

1. Set up APT so it can download through HTTPS and install curl and gnupg:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https curl gnupg
   

2. Set up the Datadog Debian repo on your system and create a Datadog archive keyring:

   sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.datadoghq.com/ stable main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/datadog.list"
   sudo touch /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg
   sudo chmod a+r /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg
   
   curl https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_APT_KEY_CURRENT.public | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg --import --batch
   curl https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_APT_KEY_C0962C7D.public | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg --import --batch
   curl https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_APT_KEY_F14F620E.public | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg --import --batch
   curl https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_APT_KEY_382E94DE.public | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg --import --batch
   

3. If running Debian 8 or earlier, copy the keyring to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d:

   sudo cp -a /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
   

4. Update your local APT repo and install the Agent:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install datadog-agent datadog-signing-keys
   

5. Run the following command to copy the example config into place. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   sudo sh -c "sed 's/api_key:.*/api_key:MY_API_KEY /' /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf.example > /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf"
   

6. Start the Agent:

   sudo /etc/init.d/datadog-agent start
   

One-step install

The one-step command installs the YUM packages for the Datadog Agent and prompts you for your password. If the Agent is not already installed on your machine and you don’t want it to start automatically after the installation, prepend DD_INSTALL_ONLY=true to the command before running it.

Run the following command, replacing MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

DD_API_KEY=MY_API_KEY bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/dd-agent/master/packaging/datadog-agent/source/install_agent.sh)"

Multi-step install

1. Set up the Datadog YUM repo by creating /etc/yum.repos.d/datadog.repo with the following contents:

   [datadog]
   name=Datadog, Inc.
   baseurl=https://yum.datadoghq.com/rpm/x86_64/
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=1
   gpgkey=https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_CURRENT.public
          https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_B01082D3.public
          https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_FD4BF915.public
   

   Note: On i386/i686 architecture, replace “x86_64” with “i386”.

2. Update your local yum repo and install the Agent:

   sudo yum makecache
   sudo yum install datadog-agent
   

3. Copy the example config into place. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   sudo sh -c "sed 's/api_key:.*/api_key:MY_API_KEY /' /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf.example > /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf"
   

4. Restart the Agent:

   sudo /etc/init.d/datadog-agent restart
   

One-step install

The one-step command installs the YUM packages for the Datadog Agent and prompts you for your password. If the Agent is not already installed on your machine and you don’t want it to start automatically after the installation, prepend DD_INSTALL_ONLY=true to the command before running it.

Run the following command, replacing MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

DD_API_KEY=MY_API_KEY bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/dd-agent/master/packaging/datadog-agent/source/install_agent.sh)"

Multi-step install

1. Set up the Datadog YUM repo by creating /etc/yum.repos.d/datadog.repo with the following contents:

   [datadog]
   name=Datadog, Inc.
   baseurl=https://yum.datadoghq.com/rpm/x86_64/
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=1
   gpgkey=https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_CURRENT.public
          https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_B01082D3.public
          https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_FD4BF915.public
   

   Note: On i386/i686 architecture, replace “x86_64” with “i386”.

2. Update your local YUM repo and install the Agent:

   sudo yum makecache
   sudo yum remove datadog-agent-base 
   sudo yum install datadog-agent
   

3. Copy the example config into place. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   sudo sh -c "sed 's/api_key:.*/api_key:MY_API_KEY /' /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf.example > /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf"
   

4. Restart the Agent:

   sudo /etc/init.d/datadog-agent restart
   

One-step install

The one-step command installs the YUM packages for the Datadog Agent and prompts you for your password. If the Agent is not already installed on your machine and you don’t want it to start automatically after the installation, prepend DD_INSTALL_ONLY=true to the command before running it.

Run the following command, replacing MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

DD_API_KEY=MY_API_KEY bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/dd-agent/master/packaging/datadog-agent/source/install_agent.sh)"

Multi-step install

1. Set up the Datadog YUM repo by creating /etc/yum.repos.d/datadog.repo with the following contents:

   [datadog]
   name=Datadog, Inc.
   baseurl=https://yum.datadoghq.com/rpm/x86_64/
   enabled=1
   gpgcheck=1
   gpgkey=https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_CURRENT.public
          https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_B01082D3.public
          https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_FD4BF915.public
   

   Note: On i386/i686 architecture, replace “x86_64” with “i386”.

2. Update your local YUM repo and install the Agent:

   sudo yum makecache
   sudo yum install datadog-agent
   

3. Copy the example config into place. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   sudo sh -c "sed 's/api_key:.*/api_key:MY_API_KEY /' /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf.example > /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf"
   

4. Restart the Agent:

   sudo /etc/init.d/datadog-agent restart
   

One-step install

The one-step command installs the YUM packages for the Datadog Agent and prompts you for your password. If the Agent is not already installed on your machine and you don’t want it to start automatically after the installation, prepend DD_INSTALL_ONLY=true to the command before running it.

Run the following command, replacing MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

DD_API_KEY=MY_API_KEY bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/dd-agent/master/packaging/datadog-agent/source/install_agent.sh)"

Multi-step install

1. Set up the Datadog YUM repo by creating /etc/yum.repos.d/datadog.repo with the following contents:

   [datadog]
   name=Datadog, Inc.
   enabled=1
   baseurl=https://yum.datadoghq.com/suse/rpm/x86_64
   type=rpm-md
   gpgcheck=1
   repo_gpgcheck=0
   gpgkey=https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_B01082D3.public
   gpgkey=https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_FD4BF915.public
   

2. Update your local zypper repo and install the Agent:

   sudo zypper refresh
   sudo zypper install datadog-agent
   

3. Copy the example config into place. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   sudo sh -c "sed 's/api_key:.*/api_key: MY_API_KEY/' /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf.example > /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf"
   

4. Restart the Agent:

   sudo /etc/init.d/datadog-agent restart
   

One-step install

The one-step command installs the latest BFF package for the Datadog Agent and prompts you for your password if necessary. If the Agent is not already installed on your machine and you don’t want it to start automatically after the installation, prepend DD_INSTALL_ONLY=true to the command before running it.

Run the following command, replacing MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

DD_API_KEY=MY_API_KEY bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/dd-agent/master/packaging/datadog-agent/source/install_agent.sh)"

Upgrade from a previous installation

To install the Agent while keeping your existing configuration, run the following command:

DD_UPGRADE=true ksh -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/datadog-unix-agent/master/scripts/install_script.sh)"

For a full list of the available installation script environment variables, see Basic Agent Usage for AIX.

Multi-step install

1. Download the preferred BFF from the datadog-unix-agent repo releases:
2. Install the artifact as root with installp:

   installp -aXYgd datadog-unix-agent-latest.powerpc.aix..bff datadog-unix-agent
   

3. If you don’t have an existing configuration file, copy the example config into place. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   sudo sh -c "sed 's/api_key:.*/api_key: MY_API_KEY/' /etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml.example > /etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml"
   

4. Ensure that the Datadog agent has the correct permissions:

   sudo sh -c "chown dd-agent:dd-agent /etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml && chmod 660 /etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml"
   

5. Stop the Agent service:

   sudo stopsrc -s datadog-agent
   

6. Verify the Agent service has stopped:

   sudo lssrc -s datadog-agent
   

7. Restart the Agent service:

   sudo startsrc -s datadog-agent
   

Install the Agent

Install with DaemonSets

If you’re running Kubernetes >= 1.1.0, you can take advantage of DaemonSets to automatically deploy the Datadog Agent on all your nodes

1. Create a secret that contains your API key. This secret is used in the manifest to deploy the Datadog Agent. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   kubectl create secret generic datadog-secret --from-literal api-key =" MY_API_KEY"
   

2. Create the following manifest named dd-agent.yaml:

   apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
   kind: DaemonSet
   metadata:
   name: dd-agent
   spec:
   template:
      metadata:
         labels:
         app: dd-agent
         name: dd-agent
      spec:
         containers:
         - image: gcr.io/datadoghq/docker-dd-agent:latest
         imagePullPolicy: Always
         name: dd-agent
         ports:
            - containerPort: 8125
               name: dogstatsdport
               protocol: UDP
         env:
            - name: DD_API_KEY
               valueFrom:
               secretKeyRef:
                  name: datadog-secret
                  key: api-key
            - name: KUBERNETES
               value: "yes"
            - name: SD_BACKEND
               value: docker
            # Uncomment this variable if the agent has issues reaching kubelet
            # - name: KUBERNETES_KUBELET_HOST
            #   valueFrom:
            #     fieldRef:
            #       fieldPath: status.hostIP  # Kubernetes >= 1.7
            #       # or
            #       # fieldPath: spec.nodeName  # Kubernetes < 1.7
         resources:
            requests:
               memory: "256Mi"
               cpu: "200m"
            limits:
               memory: "256Mi"
               cpu: "200m"
         volumeMounts:
            - name: dockersocket
               mountPath: /var/run/docker.sock
            - name: procdir
               mountPath: /host/proc
               readOnly: true
            - name: cgroups
               mountPath: /host/sys/fs/cgroup
               readOnly: true
         livenessProbe:
            exec:
               command:
               - ./probe.sh
            initialDelaySeconds: 15
            periodSeconds: 5
         volumes:
         - hostPath:
               path: /var/run/docker.sock
            name: dockersocket
         - hostPath:
               path: /proc
            name: procdir
         - hostPath:
               path: /sys/fs/cgroup
            name: cgroups
   

3. Deploy the DaemonSet:

   kubectl create -f dd-agent.yaml
   

Run the Agent as a Docker container

If you are not running Kubernetes 1.1.0 or later, or you don’t want to use DaemonSets, run the Agent as a Docker container on each node you want to monitor. Run the following command, replacing MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

docker run -d --name dd-agent -h `hostname` -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro -v /proc/:/host/proc/:ro -v /sys/fs/cgroup/:/host/sys/fs/cgroup:ro -e API_KEY=MY_API_KEY -e KUBERNETES=yes -e SD_BACKEND=docker gcr.io/datadoghq/docker-dd-agent:latest

Send custom metrics

If you plan on sending custom metrics using DogStatsD:

1. Bind the container’s StatsD port to the node’s IP address by adding a hostPort to the ports section of your manifest:

   ports:
     - containerPort: 8125
       hostPort: 8125
       name: dogstatsdport
       protocol: UDP
   

2. Configure your client library to send UDP packets to the node’s IP. If using bridge networking, the default gateway of your application container matches the node’s IP. You can also use the downward API to expose the node’s hostname as an environment variable.

Customize your Agent configuration

To customize your Agent configuration, see the documentation in the Agent 5 docker-dd-agent repo. To tune autodiscovery configuration, see Kubernetes Integrations Autodiscovery. To disable autodiscovery, remove the SD_BACKEND environment variable from your manifest.

For information on collecting metrics, service checks, and events, see the Kubernetes integration documentation.

One-step install

The one-step install runs a Docker container which embeds the Datadog Agent to monitor your host. The Docker integration is enabled by default, as well as autodiscovery in auto config mode. To disable autodiscovery, remove the SD_BACKEND variable from the one-step install command.

Amazon Linux

Run the following command, replacing MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

docker run -d --name dd-agent -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro -v /proc/:/host/proc/:ro -v /cgroup/:/host/sys/fs/cgroup:ro -e API_KEY=MY_API_KEY -e SD_BACKEND=docker gcr.io/datadoghq/docker-dd-agent:latest

Other operating systems

Run the following command, replacing MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

docker run -d --name dd-agent -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro -v /proc/:/host/proc/:ro -v /sys/fs/cgroup/:/host/sys/fs/cgroup:ro -e API_KEY=MY_API_KEY -e SD_BACKEND=docker gcr.io/datadoghq/docker-dd-agent:latest

Troubleshooting

If the one-step install command does not work, it’s possible that your system mounts the cgroup directory in an unexpected place or does not use CGroups for memory management. CGroups are required for the Docker check to succeed. To enable CGroups, see the documentation in the docker-dd-agent repo. If the check is failing because of an unexpected cgroup directory location:

1. Run mount | grep "cgroup type tmpfs" to retrieve the location of the cgroup directory.
2. Replace the first occurence of /sys/fs/cgroup in the one-step install command with the location of the cgroup directory.

Send custom metrics

To send custom metrics using DogStatsD:

1. Add the -p 8125:8125/udp option to the install command. This binds the container’s StatsD port to the host’s IP address.
2. Configure your client library to send UDP packets to the host’s IP address.

Customize your Agent configuration

To customize your Agent configuration, see the documentation in the Agent 5 docker-dd-agent repo. To tune autodiscovery configuration, see Docker Integrations Autodiscovery. To disable autodiscovery, remove the SD_BACKEND environment variable from the one-step installation command.

Running CoreOS Container Linux is supported with the Docker runtime. For installation instructions, see Docker.

To run CoreOS Tectonic on Kubernetes, see Kubernetes.

For information on installing Datadog with OpenShift, see the datadog-openshift repo.

1. Upload the Datadog Agent release to your BOSH Director:

   # BOSH CLI v1
   bosh upload release https://cloudfoundry.datadoghq.com/datadog-agent/datadog-agent-boshrelease-latest.tgz
   
   # BOSH CLI v2
   bosh upload-release https://cloudfoundry.datadoghq.com/datadog-agent/datadog-agent-boshrelease-latest.tgz
   

2. Configure Datadog as an addon in your runtime config. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key::

   # runtime.yml
   ---
   releases:
   - name: datadog-agent
      version: $UPLOADED_VERSION # e.g. 1.0.5140
   
   addons:
   - name: datadog
   jobs:
   - name: dd-agent
      release: datadog-agent
   properties:
      dd:
         use_dogstatsd: yes
         dogstatsd_port: 18125 # Many Cloud Foundry deployments have their own StatsD listening on port 8125
         api_key: MY_API_KEY
         tags: ["my-cloud-foundry-deployment"] # optional. Add any tags you wish
         # Optionally, enable any Agent Checks here
         # integrations:
         #   directory:
         #     init_config: {}
         #     instances:
         #       directory: "."
   

3. Add the runtime to your runtime config:

   # BOSH cli v1
   bosh update runtime-config runtime.yml
   
   # BOSH cli v2
   bosh update-runtime-config runtime.yml
   

4. Redeploy any existing deployments:

   # BOSH cli v1
   bosh deployment myDeployment.yml
   bosh -n deploy
   
   # BOSH cli v2
   bosh -n -d myDeployment deploy myDeployment.yml
   

Prerequisites

Windows

Before you can use the Datadog Ansible Collection to manage Windows hosts, you must install the ansible.windows collection:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.windows

openSUSE and SLES

Before you can use the Datadog Ansible Collection to manage openSUSE/SLES hosts, you must install the community.general collection:

ansible-galaxy collection install community.general

Install Datadog

1. Install the Datadog Ansible collection from Ansible Galaxy on your Ansible server:

   ansible-galaxy collection install datadog.dd
   

   • The Datadog Ansible collection is also available through the Red Hat Automation Hub where it is officially certified by Red Hat.
   • Installing the collection is recommended. If needed, you can also install Datadog using the standalone role.

2. To deploy the Datadog Agent on hosts, add the Datadog role and your API key to your playbook. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   - hosts: servers
   tasks:
      - name: Import the Datadog Agent role from the Datadog collection
         import_role:
         name: datadog.dd.agent
   vars:
      datadog_api_key: "MY_API_KEY"
      datadog_agent_major_version: 5
   

   To ensure that the Agent can group your hosts together, only use node hostnames that the Datadog Agent is tracking. You can check what hostnames the Agent is tracking using the following command:

   service datadog-agent info
   

Specific Agent checks

To use a specific Agent check or integration on one of your nodes, you can use the datadog_checks variable. Here is an example for the process check:

- hosts: servers
  tasks:
    - name: Import the Datadog Agent role from the Datadog collection
      import_role:
        name: datadog.dd.agent
  vars:
    datadog_api_key: "MY_API_KEY"
    datadog_agent_major_version: 5
    datadog_checks:
      process:
        init_config:
        instances:
          - name: ssh
            search_string: ['ssh', 'sshd']
          - name: syslog
            search_string: ['rsyslog']
            cpu_check_interval: 0.2
            exact_match: true
            ignore_denied_access: true

You can find more examples of the Agent role usage on the Github repo for the standalone role.

Metrics and events

To get metrics and events on Datadog after Ansible runs, see the Ansible callback project’s Github page.

1. Install the datadog_agent module from the Puppet Forge on your Puppet server:

   • For fresh installs, run the module install command:

     puppet module install datadog-datadog_agent
     

   • If the module is already installed, upgrade it:

     puppet module upgrade datadog-datadog_agent
     

2. To deploy the Datadog agent on nodes, add this parametrized class to your manifests. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   node "db1.mydomain.com" {
      class { "datadog_agent":
         api_key => "MY_API_KEY"
      }
   }
   

   To ensure that the Agent can group your hosts together, only use node hostnames that the Datadog Agent is tracking. You can check what hostnames the Agent is tracking using the following command:

   service datadog-agent info
   

3. Enable reporting to Datadog on your Puppet server:

   1. Add the following parameters to /etc/puppet/puppet.conf:

      [master]
      report = true
      reports = datadog_reports
      pluginsync = true
      
      [agent]
      report = true
      pluginsync = true
      

   2. In your manifest, add the puppet_run_reports option to your Puppet server. For example:

      node "puppet" {
         class { "datadog_agent":
            api_key            => "MY_API_KEY",
            puppet_run_reports => true
            }
      }
      

4. Run Puppet on your Puppet server to install all necessary dependencies.

5. Restart your Puppet server to begin receiving Puppet data in Datadog.

Specific Agent checks

To use a specific Agent check or integration on one of your nodes, see the relevant integration manifest for a code sample. Here is an example for the elasticsearch integration:

node "elastic-node1.mydomain.com" {
    class { "datadog_agent":
        api_key => ""
    }
    include "datadog_agent::integrations::elasticsearch"
}

1. Add the Datadog cookbook:

   • If you are using Berkshelf, add the cookbook to your Berksfile:

     cookbook 'datadog'
     

   • If you’re not using Berkshelf, install the cookbook in to your repository using Knife:

     knife cookbook site install datadog 
     

2. Set the Datadog-specific attributes in either a role, environment, or another recipe. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   node.default['datadog']['api_key'] = "MY_API_KEY"
   # Use an existing application key or create a new one for Chef
   node.default['datadog']['application_key'] = "Generate Application Key"
   

3. Upload the updated cookbook to your Chef server:

   berks upload
   # or
   knife cookbook upload datadog
   knife cookbook list | grep datadog && 
   echo -e "e[0;32mdatadog cookbook - OKe[0m" ||
   echo -e "e[0;31mmissing datadog cookbook - OKe[0m"
   

4. Add the cookbook to your node’s run_list or role:

   "run_list": [
    "recipe[datadog::dd-agent]"
   ]
   

5. Wait for the next scheduled chef-client run.

Install using gitfs_remotes

1. Install the Datadog formula in the base environment of your Salt Master node, using the gitfs_remotes option in your Salt Master configuration file (by default /etc/salt/master):

   fileserver_backend:
   - roots # Active by default, necessary to be able to use the local salt files we define in the next steps
   - gitfs # Adds gitfs as a fileserver backend to be able to use gitfs_remotes
   
   gitfs_remotes:
   - https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-formula.git:
     - saltenv:
       - base:
       - ref: 3.0 # Pin here the version of the formula you want to use
   

2. Restart your Salt Master service:

   systemctl restart salt-master
   

   or

   service salt-master restart
   

Install by cloning the Datadog formula

1. Clone the Datadog formula on your Salt Master node:

   mkdir -p /srv/formulas && cd /srv/formulas git clone https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-formula.git
   

2. Add the cloned formula to the base environment in the file_roots of your Salt Master configuration file (by default /etc/salt/master):

   file_roots:
     base:
       - /srv/salt/
       - /srv/formulas/datadog-formula/
   

Deploy the Agent to your hosts

1. Add the Datadog formula to your top file (by default /srv/salt/top.sls):

   base:
     '*':
       - datadog
   

2. Add a datadog.sls pillar file to your pillar directory (by default /srv/pillar/) and add your API key. Replace MY_API_KEY with your Datadog API key:

   datadog:
     config:
       api_key: MY_API_KEY
     install_settings:
       agent_version: <AGENT5_VERSION>
   

3. Add the datadog.sls pillar file to the top pillar file (by default /srv/pillar/top.sls):

   base:
     '*':
       - datadog
   

4. To use a specific Agent check or integration on one of your hosts, you can use the checks variable. Here is an example for the directory integration:

   datadog:
     config:
       api_key: MY_API_KEY
     install_settings:
       agent_version: <AGENT5_VERSION>
     checks:
       directory:
         config:
           instances:
             - directory: "/srv/pillar"
               name: "pillars"
   

Refer to the formula Github repository for logs configuration, check examples, and advanced use cases.