Kubernetes Log collection

Note: This option is not supported on Windows. Use the Helm option instead.

To enable log collection with your DaemonSet:

1. Set the DD_LOGS_ENABLED and DD_LOGS_CONFIG_CONTAINER_COLLECT_ALL variable to true in the env section of the datadog.yaml Agent manifest:

    # (...)
     env:
       # (...)
       - name: DD_LOGS_ENABLED
         value: "true"
       - name: DD_LOGS_CONFIG_CONTAINER_COLLECT_ALL
         value: "true"
       - name: DD_CONTAINER_EXCLUDE
         value: "name:datadog-agent"
    # (...)

   Note: Setting DD_CONTAINER_EXCLUDE prevents the Datadog Agent from collecting and sending its own logs. Remove this parameter if you want to collect the Datadog Agent logs. See the Container Discovery Management to learn more.

2. Mount the pointdir volume to prevent loss of container logs during restarts or network issues and /var/lib/docker/containers to collect logs through kubernetes log file as well, since /var/log/pods is symlink to this directory:

     # (...)
       volumeMounts:
       #  (...)
         - name: pointdir
           mountPath: /opt/datadog-agent/run
        - name: logpodpath
          mountPath: /var/log/pods
        # Docker runtime directory, replace this path
        # with your container runtime logs directory,
        # or remove this configuration if `/var/log/pods`
        # is not a symlink to any other directory.
        - name: logcontainerpath
          mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers
     # (...)
     volumes:
      # (...)
       - hostPath:
           path: /opt/datadog-agent/run
         name: pointdir
       - hostPath:
           path: /var/log/pods
         name: logpodpath
       # Docker runtime directory, replace this path
       # with your container runtime logs directory,
       # or remove this configuration if `/var/log/pods`
       # is not a symlink to any other directory.
       - hostPath:
           path: /var/lib/docker/containers
         name: logcontainerpath
       # (...)

   The pointdir is used to store a file with a pointer to all the containers that the Agent is collecting logs from. This is to make sure none are lost when the Agent is restarted, or in the case of a network issue.

To enable log collection with Helm, update your datadog-values.yaml file with the following log collection configuration, then upgrade your Datadog Helm chart:

datadog:
  ## @param logs - object - required
  ## Enable logs agent and provide custom configs
  #
  logs:
    ## @param enabled - boolean - optional - default: false
    ## Enables this to activate Datadog Agent log collection.
    #
    enabled: true

    ## @param containerCollectAll - boolean - optional - default: false
    ## Enable this to allow log collection for all containers.
    #
    containerCollectAll: true

Integration templates can be stored in your Kubernetes pod annotations. With Autodiscovery, the Agent detects if it’s running on Kubernetes and automatically searches all pod annotations for integration templates.

To apply a specific configuration to a given container, Autodiscovery identifies containers by name, NOT image. It tries to match <CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER> to .spec.containers[0].name, not .spec.containers[0].image. To configure your Datadog integration Autodiscovery on a given <CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER> within your pod, add the following annotations to your pod:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
# (...)
metadata:
  name: '<POD_NAME>'
  annotations:
    ad.datadoghq.com/<CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER>.logs: '[<LOG_CONFIG>]'
    # (...)
spec:
  containers:
    - name: '<CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER>'
# (...)

To apply two different integration templates to two different containers: <CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER_1> and <CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER_2> within your pod, add the following annotations to your pod:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
# (...)
metadata:
  name: '<POD_NAME>'
  annotations:
    ad.datadoghq.com/<CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER_1>.logs: '[<LOG_CONFIG_1>]'
    # (...)
    ad.datadoghq.com/<CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER_2>.logs: '[<LOG_CONFIG_2>]'
spec:
  containers:
    - name: '<CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER_1>'
    # (...)
    - name: '<CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER_2>'
# (...)

Note: If you define your Kubernetes pods directly with kind: Pod, add each pod’s annotations directly under its metadata section. If you define pods indirectly with replication controllers, replica sets, or deployments, add pod annotations under .spec.template.metadata.

Storing templates as local files and mounting them inside the containerized Agent doesn’t require an external service or a specific orchestration platform. The downside is that you need to restart your Agent containers each time you change, add, or remove templates. The Agent looks for Autodiscovery templates in the mounted /conf.d directory.

Since Agent v6.2.0 (and v5.24.0), the default templates use the default port for the monitored software, instead of auto-detecting it. If you need to use a different port, provide a custom Autodiscovery template either in Docker container labels or Kubernetes pod annotations.

These integration templates are meant for basic cases. If you need a custom Datadog integration configuration to enable extra options, use different container identifiers—or use template variables indexing and write your own auto-configuration file:

1. Create a conf.d/<INTEGRATION_NAME>.d/conf.yaml file on your host and add your custom auto-configuration.
2. Mount your host conf.d/ folder to the containerized Agent’s conf.d folder.

Example auto-configuration file:

ad_identifiers:
  <INTEGRATION_AUTODISCOVERY_IDENTIFIER>

logs:
  <LOGS_CONFIG>

See the Autodiscovery Container Identifiers documentation for information on the <INTEGRATION_AUTODISCOVERY_IDENTIFIER>.

Note: You don’t need to set up the <INTEGRATIONS_NAME> since the Agent infers it from the file name directly.

On Kubernetes, you can use ConfigMaps. Reference the template below and the Kubernetes Custom Integrations documentation.

kind: ConfigMap
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: "<NAME>-config-map"
  namespace: default
data:
  <INTEGRATION_NAME>-config: |-
    ad_identifiers:
      <INTEGRATION_AUTODISCOVERY_IDENTIFIER>
    logs:
      <LOGS_CONFIG>

See the Autodiscovery Container Identifiers documentation for information on the <INTEGRATION_AUTODISCOVERY_IDENTIFIER>.

Autodiscovery can use Consul, Etcd, and Zookeeper as integration template sources. To use a key-value store, configure it in the Agent datadog.yaml configuration file and mount this file inside the containerized Agent. Alternatively, pass your key-value store as environment variables to the containerized Agent.

Configure in datadog.yaml:

In the datadog.yaml file, set the <KEY_VALUE_STORE_IP> address and <KEY_VALUE_STORE_PORT> of your key-value store:

  config_providers:
    - name: etcd
      polling: true
      template_dir: /datadog/check_configs
      template_url: '<KV_STORE_IP>:<KV_STORE_PORT>'
      username:
      password:

    - name: consul
      polling: true
      template_dir: datadog/check_configs
      template_url: '<KV_STORE_IP>:<KV_STORE_PORT>'
      ca_file:
      ca_path:
      cert_file:
      key_file:
      username:
      password:
      token:

    - name: zookeeper
      polling: true
      template_dir: /datadog/check_configs
      template_url: '<KV_STORE_IP>:<KV_STORE_PORT>'
      username:
      password:

Then restart the Agent to apply the configuration change.

Configure in environment variables:

With the key-value store enabled as a template source, the Agent looks for templates under the key /datadog/check_configs. Autodiscovery expects a key-value hierarchy like this:

/datadog/
  check_configs/
    <CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER>/
      - logs: ["<LOGS_CONFIG>"]
    ...

Note: To apply a specific configuration to a given container, Autodiscovery identifies containers by image when using the key-value stores by trying to match <CONTAINER_IDENTIFIER> to .spec.containers[0].image.

The following pod annotation defines the integration template for redis containers with a custom password parameter and tags all its logs with the correct source and service attributes:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: redis
  annotations:
    ad.datadoghq.com/redis.logs: '[{"source":"redis","service":"redis"}]'
  labels:
    name: redis
spec:
  containers:
    - name: redis
      image: redis:latest
      ports:
        - containerPort: 6379

The following ConfigMap defines the integration template for redis containers with the source and service attributes for collecting logs:

kind: ConfigMap
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: redis-config-map
  namespace: default
data:
  redisdb-config: |-
    ad_identifiers:
      - redis
      - redis-test
    logs:
      source: redis
      service: redis

In the manifest, define the volumeMounts and volumes:

# [...]
        volumeMounts:
        # [...]
          - name: redisdb-config-map
            mountPath: /conf.d/redisdb.d
        # [...]
      volumes:
      # [...]
        - name: redisdb-config-map
          configMap:
            name: redisdb-config-map
            items:
              - key: redisdb-config
                path: conf.yaml
# [...]

The following etcd commands create a Redis integration template with a custom password parameter and tags all its logs with the correct source and service attributes:

etcdctl mkdir /datadog/check_configs/redis
etcdctl set /datadog/check_configs/redis/logs '[{"source": "redis", "service": "redis"}]'

Notice that each of the three values is a list. Autodiscovery assembles list items into the integration configurations based on shared list indexes. In this case, it composes the first (and only) check configuration from check_names[0], init_configs[0] and instances[0].

Unlike auto-conf files, key-value stores may use the short OR long image name as container identifiers, e.g. redis OR redis:latest.