To disable payloads, you must be running Agent v6.4+. This disables metric data submission so that hosts stop showing up in Datadog. Follow these steps:
Open the datadog.yaml configuration file.
Add the enable_payloads attribute with the following settings:
enable_payloads:
series: false
events: false
service_checks: false
sketches: false
If you are using the container Agent, set the environment variable DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_EVENTS, DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SERIES, DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SERVICE_CHECKS, and DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SKETCHES to false in addition to your Agent configuration:
docker run -d --name datadog-agent \
-e DD_API_KEY=<DATADOG_API_KEY> \
-e DD_LOGS_ENABLED=true \
-e DD_LOGS_CONFIG_CONTAINER_COLLECT_ALL=true \
-e DD_CONTAINER_EXCLUDE="name:datadog-agent" \
-e DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_EVENTS=false
-e DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SERIES=false
-e DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SERVICE_CHECKS=false
-e DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SKETCHES=false
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
-v /proc/:/host/proc/:ro \
-v /opt/datadog-agent/run:/opt/datadog-agent/run:rw \
-v /sys/fs/cgroup/:/host/sys/fs/cgroup:ro \
gcr.io/datadoghq/agent:latest
If you are deploying the Agent in Kubernetes, set the environment variable DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_EVENTS, DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SERIES, DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SERVICE_CHECKS, and DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SKETCHES to false in addition to your Agent configuration.
Set DD_SITE to your Datadog site:
# datadog-agent.yaml
# Uncomment this section to use Kubernetes secrets to configure your Datadog API key
# apiVersion: v1
# kind: Secret
# metadata:
# name: datadog-secret
# labels:
# app: "datadog"
# type: Opaque
# data:
# api-key: "<YOUR_BASE64_ENCODED_API_KEY>"
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
name: datadog-agent
namespace: default
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: datadog-agent
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: datadog-agent
name: datadog-agent
spec:
serviceAccountName: datadog-agent
containers:
- image: gcr.io/datadoghq/agent:latest
imagePullPolicy: Always
name: datadog-agent
ports:
- containerPort: 8125
## Custom metrics via DogStatsD - uncomment this section to enable
## custom metrics collection.
## Set DD_DOGSTATSD_NON_LOCAL_TRAFFIC to "true" to collect StatsD metrics
## from other containers.
#
# hostPort: 8125
name: dogstatsdport
protocol: UDP
- containerPort: 8126
## Trace Collection (APM) - uncomment this section to enable APM
# hostPort: 8126
name: traceport
protocol: TCP
env:
## Set the Datadog API Key related to your Organization
## If you use the Kubernetes Secret use the following env variable:
## {name: DD_API_KEY, valueFrom:{ secretKeyRef:{ name: datadog-secret, key: api-key }}
- {name: DD_API_KEY, value: "<DATADOG_API_KEY>"}
## Set DD_SITE to your Datadog site
- {name: DD_SITE, value: "<YOUR_DD_SITE>"}
## Path to docker socket
- {name: DD_CRI_SOCKET_PATH, value: /host/var/run/docker.sock}
- {name: DOCKER_HOST, value: unix:///host/var/run/docker.sock}
## Set DD_DOGSTATSD_NON_LOCAL_TRAFFIC to true to allow StatsD collection.
- {name: DD_DOGSTATSD_NON_LOCAL_TRAFFIC, value: "false" }
- {name: KUBERNETES, value: "true"}
- {name: DD_HEALTH_PORT, value: "5555"}
- {name: DD_COLLECT_KUBERNETES_EVENTS, value: "true" }
- {name: DD_LEADER_ELECTION, value: "true" }
- {name: DD_APM_ENABLED, value: "true" }
## Enable Log collection
- {name: DD_LOGS_ENABLED, value: "true"}
- {name: DD_LOGS_CONFIG_CONTAINER_COLLECT_ALL, value: "true"}
- {name: DD_CONTAINER_EXCLUDE, value: "name:datadog-agent"}
## Send logs only
- {name: DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_EVENTS, value: "false"}
- {name: DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SERIES, value: "false"}
- {name: DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SERVICE_CHECKS, value: "false"}
- {name: DD_ENABLE_PAYLOADS_SKETCHES, value: "false"}
- name: DD_KUBERNETES_KUBELET_HOST
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
fieldPath: status.hostIP
## Note these are the minimum suggested values for requests and limits.
## The amount of resources required by the Agent varies depending on:
## * The number of checks
## * The number of integrations enabled
## * The number of features enabled
resources:
requests:
memory: "256Mi"
cpu: "200m"
limits:
memory: "256Mi"
cpu: "200m"
volumeMounts:
- {name: dockersocketdir, mountPath: /host/var/run}
- {name: procdir, mountPath: /host/proc, readOnly: true}
- {name: cgroups, mountPath: /host/sys/fs/cgroup, readOnly: true}
- {name: s6-run, mountPath: /var/run/s6}
- {name: logpodpath, mountPath: /var/log/pods}
- {name: pointdir, mountPath: /opt/datadog-agent/run}
## 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}
livenessProbe:
httpGet:
path: /health
port: 5555
initialDelaySeconds: 15
periodSeconds: 15
timeoutSeconds: 5
successThreshold: 1
failureThreshold: 3
volumes:
- {name: dockersocketdir, hostPath: {path: /var/run}}
- {name: procdir, hostPath: {path: /proc}}
- {name: cgroups, hostPath: {path: /sys/fs/cgroup}}
- {name: s6-run, emptyDir: {}}
- {name: logpodpath, hostPath: {path: /var/log/pods}}
- {name: pointdir, hostPath: {path: /opt/datadog-agent/run}}
## 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, hostPath: {path: /var/lib/docker/containers}}