dd-agent

Overview

Datadog is a monitoring service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform. The Datadog Agent is software that runs on your hosts. It collects events and metrics from hosts and sends them to Datadog, where you can analyze your monitoring and performance data.

Runtime arguments

Network: host
Shell: bash
Privileged: true
Extra Params: --pid host

Template configuration

DD_API_KEYVariable

Datadog API Key

DD_SITEVariable

Datadog Site

Default: datadoghq.eu
Value: datadoghq.eu

DD_DOGSTATSD_NON_LOCAL_TRAFFICVariable

Enable DogStatsD non-local traffic

Default: true
Value: true

DD_APM_ENABLEDVariable

Enable APM

Default: true
Value: true

DD_APM_NON_LOCAL_TRAFFICVariable

Enable APM non-local traffic

Default: true
Value: true

DD_APM_RECEIVER_SOCKETVariable

APM Receiver Socket

Default: /var/run/datadog/apm.socket
Value: /var/run/datadog/apm.socket

DD_DOGSTATSD_SOCKETVariable

DogStatsD Socket

Default: /var/run/datadog/dsd.socket
Value: /var/run/datadog/dsd.socket

Datadog Socket PathPathrw

Container Path: /var/run/datadog

Target: /var/run/datadog
Default: /var/run/datadog
Value: /var/run/datadog

DD_PROFILING_ENABLEDVariable

Enable Profiling

Default: auto
Value: auto

DD_DATA_STREAMS_ENABLEDVariable

Enable Data Streams

Default: true
Value: true

DD_LOGS_ENABLEDVariable

Enable Logs

Default: true
Value: true

DD_LOGS_CONFIG_AUTO_MULTI_LINE_DETECTIONVariable

Enable Auto Multi-line Detection for Logs

Default: true
Value: true

DD_LOGS_CONFIG_CONTAINER_COLLECT_ALLVariable

Collect Logs from all containers

Default: true
Value: true

DD_CONTAINER_EXCLUDE_LOGSVariable

Exclude logs from specific containers

Default: name:dd-agent
Value: name:dd-agent

Agent Run PathPathrw

Container Path: /opt/datadog-agent/run

Target: /opt/datadog-agent/run
Default: /opt/datadog-agent/run
Value: /opt/datadog-agent/run

HOST_ROOT_VARVariable

Host Root Variable

Target: HOST_ROOT
Default: /host/root
Value: /host/root

Passwd PathPathro

Container Path: /etc/passwd

Target: /etc/passwd
Default: /etc/passwd
Value: /etc/passwd

Group PathPathro

Container Path: /etc/group

Target: /etc/group
Default: /etc/group
Value: /etc/group

Host Root PathPathro

Container Path: /host/root

Target: /host/root
Default: /
Value: /

DebugFSPathrw

Container Path: /sys/kernel/debug

Target: /sys/kernel/debug
Default: /sys/kernel/debug
Value: /sys/kernel/debug

OS ReleasePathro

Container Path: /etc/os-release

Target: /etc/os-release
Default: /etc/os-release
Value: /etc/os-release

DD_SYSTEM_PROBE_ENABLEDVariable

Enable System Probe (required for Runtime Security)

Default: true
Value: true

DD_RUNTIME_SECURITY_CONFIG_ENABLEDVariable

Enable Runtime Security

Default: true
Value: true

DD_SECURITY_AGENT_ENABLEDVariable

Enable Security Agent

Default: true
Value: true

DD_SYSTEM_PROBE_RUNTIME_SECURITY_CONFIG_ENABLEDVariable

Enable Runtime Security in System Probe

Default: true
Value: true

DD_RUNTIME_SECURITY_CONFIG_RUNTIME_COMPILER_ENABLEDVariable

Enable Runtime Compiler for Security

Default: true
Value: true

DD_SECURITY_AGENT_V1_ENABLEDVariable

Enable Security Agent (Legacy)

Default: true
Value: true

DD_RUNTIME_SECURITY_CONFIG_REMOTE_CONFIGURATION_ENABLEDVariable

Enable Remote Configuration for Runtime Security

Default: true
Value: true

Docker SocketPathro

Container Path: /var/run/docker.sock

Target: /var/run/docker.sock
Default: /var/run/docker.sock
Value: /var/run/docker.sock

Proc PathPathro

Container Path: /host/proc/

Target: /host/proc/
Default: /proc/
Value: /proc/

Cgroup PathPathro

Container Path: /host/sys/fs/cgroup

Target: /host/sys/fs/cgroup
Default: /sys/fs/cgroup/
Value: /sys/fs/cgroup/

Container Logs PathPathro

Container Path: /var/lib/docker/containers

Target: /var/lib/docker/containers
Default: /var/lib/docker/containers
Value: /var/lib/docker/containers

Lib Modules PathPathro

Container Path: /lib/modules

Target: /lib/modules
Default: /lib/modules
Value: /lib/modules

Kernel Source PathPathro

Container Path: /usr/src

Target: /usr/src
Default: /usr/src
Value: /usr/src

DD_CLOUD_PROVIDER_METADATAVariable

Cloud Provider Metadata (set to [] to disable cloud auto-detection on Unraid)

Default: []
Value: []

DD_SYSTEM_PROBE_CONFIG_ENABLE_RUNTIME_COMPILERVariable

Enable System Probe Runtime Compiler

Default: true
Value: true

DD_SYSTEM_PROBE_CONFIG_ENABLE_BTFVariable

Enable System Probe BTF

Default: true
Value: true

Links

Template Registry Project

Details

Repository

registry.datadoghq.com/agent:latest

Registry

https://registry.datadoghq.com/agent

Last Updated2026-06-02

First Seen2026-05-26

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