Quick Guide for Datadog Agent on Docker for Events

  1. Use the official Datadog Agent image with Docker’s environment variables to ensure that you collect all events from the containers.

    docker run -d --name datadog-agent -e DD_API_KEY=kloudfuse -e DD_SITE=https://<kf-domain-name>/ingester -e DD_DOGSTATSD_NON_LOCAL_TRAFFIC=true -e DD_LOGS_ENABLED=true -e DD_LOGS_CONFIG_CONTAINER_COLLECT_ALL=true -e DD_APM_ENABLED=true -e DD_DD_URL=https://<kf-domain-name>/ingester --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro --volume /proc:/host/proc:ro --volume /sys:/host/sys:ro --volume /host:/host:ro --name datadog-agent datadog/agent:latest

  2. Enable collection of all Dockert container lifecycle events.

    docker run -d --name datadog-agent -e DD_API_KEY=kloudfuse -e DD_SITE=https://<kf-domain-name>/ingester -e DD_EVENT_COLLECTION=true --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro --name datadog-agent datadog/agent:latest