{"id":20812,"date":"2023-09-11T06:28:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T06:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=20812"},"modified":"2023-09-11T06:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T06:28:36","slug":"how-to-install-datadog-agent-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/how-to-install-datadog-agent-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install datadog agent in Ubuntu Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Step 1 – Register at https:\/\/www.datadoghq.com\/<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Step 2 – Select the UBUNTU from the Datadog supported agent list<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Step 3 – Run following commands<\/h2>\n\n\n
# DO NOT RUN THIS COMMANDS. Its an Example. COPY FROM Datadog.<\/span>\n$ D_AGENT_MAJOR_VERSION=7<\/span> DD_API_KEY=235e1<\/span>f4c8617fb97badsadaddc36 DD_SITE=\"datadoghq.com\"<\/span> bash -c \"$(curl -L https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/dd-agent\/scripts\/install_script.sh)\"<\/span>\n\n# Run Following commands for Working with Datadog Agents<\/span>\n$ systemctl start datadog-agent\n$ systemctl stop datadog-agent\n$ systemctl restart datadog-agent\n$ systemctl status datadog-agent\n$ ls \/var<\/span>\/log\/datadog\/\n$ more \/etc\/datadog-agent\/datadog.yaml\n$ more \/var<\/span>\/log\/datadog\/agent.log\n$ more \/var<\/span>\/log\/datadog\/process-agent.log\n$ more \/var<\/span>\/log\/datadog\/trace-agent.log\n$ datadog-agent configcheck\n$ datadog-agent config\n$ datadog-agent health\n$ datadog-agent hostname\n$ datadog-agent version\n$ datadog-agent status [ very important ]\n<\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> PHP<\/span> (<\/span>php<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n
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root@ip-172<\/span>-31<\/span>-45<\/span>-47<\/span>:\/home\/ubuntu# datadog-agent<\/span>\n\nThe Datadog Agent faithfully collects events and<\/span> metrics and<\/span> brings them\nto Datadog on your behalf so that you can do<\/span> something useful with your\nmonitoring and<\/span> performance data.\n\nUsage:\n  datadog-agent [command]\n\nAvailable Commands:\n  check                 Run the specified check\n  completion            Generate the autocompletion script for<\/span> the specified shell\n  config                Print<\/span> the runtime configuration of a running agent\n  configcheck           Print<\/span> all configurations loaded & resolved of a running agent\n  diagnose              Check availability of cloud provider and<\/span> container metadata endpoints\n  dogstatsd-capture     Start a dogstatsd UDS traffic capture\n  dogstatsd-replay      Replay dogstatsd traffic\n  dogstatsd-stats       Print<\/span> basic statistics on the metrics processed by dogstatsd\n  flare                 Collect a flare and<\/span> send it to Datadog\n  health                Print<\/span> the current agent health\n  help                  Help about any command\n  hostname              Print<\/span> the hostname used by the Agent\n  import                Import and<\/span> convert configuration files from previous versions of the Agent\n  integration           Datadog integration manager\n  jmx                   Run troubleshooting commands on JMXFetch integrations\n  launch-gui            starts the Datadog Agent GUI\n  run                   Run the Agent\n  secret                Print<\/span> information about decrypted secrets in configuration.\n  secret-helper         Secret management provider helper\n  snmp                  Snmp tools\n  status                Print<\/span> the current status\n  stop                  Stops a running Agent\n  stream-event-platform Stream the event platform payloads being processed by a running agent\n  stream-logs           Stream the logs being processed by a running agent\n  tagger-list<\/span>           Print<\/span> the tagger content of a running agent\n  version               Print<\/span> the version info\n  workload-list<\/span>         Print<\/span> the workload content of a running agent\n\nFlags:\n  -c, --cfgpath string           path to directory containing datadog.yaml\n  -h, --help                     help for<\/span> datadog-agent\n  -n, --no-color                 disable color output\n      --sysprobecfgpath string   path to directory containing system-probe.yaml\n\nUse<\/span> \"datadog<\/span>-agent<\/span> [command<\/span>] --help<\/span>\" for<\/span> more<\/span> information<\/span> about<\/span> a<\/span> command<\/span>.\n<\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> PHP<\/span> (<\/span>php<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n
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You would get output at the end of Installation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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How to verify Whether Agent is sending a data to Datadog cloud?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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