The Datadog Agent faithfully collects events and metrics and brings them to Datadog on your behalf so that you can do something useful with your monitoring and performance data.
The present repository contains the source code of the Datadog Agent version 6, currently in Beta. The source code of the stable Datadog Agent 5 is located in the dd-agent repository.
To build the Agent you need:
- Go 1.8 or later.
- Python 2.7 along with development libraries.
- Invoke, you can install it via
pip install invokeor via Homebrew on OSX/macOS withbrew install invoke.
Builds and tests are orchestrated with invoke, type invoke --list on a shell
to see the available tasks.
To start working on the Agent, you can build the master branch:
- checkout the repo within your
$GOPATH. - install the project's dependencies:
invoke deps. Make sure that$GOPATH/binis in your$PATHotherwise this step might fail. - build the whole project with
invoke agent.build --build-exclude=snmp
Please refer to the Agent Developer Guide for more details.
To start the agent type agent start from the bin/agent folder, it will take
care of adjusting paths and run the binary in foreground.
You need to provide a valid API key, either through the config file or passing the environment variable like:
DD_API_KEY=12345678990 ./bin/agent/agent
The general documentation of the project (including instructions on the Beta builds, Agent installation, development, etc) is located under the docs directory of the present repo.
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