Quick Guide for Datadog Agent on Docker for Events

The Datadog Agent on Docker allows you to collect events from containerized environments by running the official Datadog Agent image with appropriate Docker environment variables. This guide covers the essential setup steps needed to ensure complete event collection from your containers.

  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