The present repository contains the source code of the Datadog Agent version 6. Please refer to the Agent user documentation for information about differences between Agent 5 and Agent 6. Additionally, we provide a list of prepackaged binaries for an easy install process here

Note: the source code of Datadog Agent 5 is located in the dd-agent repository.

The general documentation of the project, including instructions for installation and development, is located under the docs directory of the present repo.

To build the Agent you need:

• Go 1.10.2 or later.
• Python 2.7 along with development libraries.
• Invoke, you can install it via pip install invoke or via Homebrew on OSX/macOS with brew install pyinvoke.

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:

1. checkout the repo: git clone https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent.
2. cd into the project folder: cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent.
3. install project's dependencies: invoke deps. Make sure that $GOPATH/bin is in your $PATH otherwise this step might fail.
4. build the whole project with invoke agent.build --build-exclude=snmp,systemd

Please refer to the Agent Developer Guide for more details.

To start the agent type agent run 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. You can either use the config file or overwrite it with the environment variable like:

DD_API_KEY=12345678990 ./bin/agent/agent -c bin/agent/dist/datadog.yaml

You'll find information and help on how to contribute code to this project under the docs/dev directory of the present repo.