Datadog Agent 5.0.0

What is Datadog Agent 5.0.0 ?

Datadog Agent 5.0.0 is the next major version of the Datadog Agent. Its main improvement being that it will be self-contained. All dependencies required by the Agent to run will be part of the package.

Warning

This version of the Datadog-Agent is still in beta. It's planned to be released soon and is being used by us and a few of our users without any major issue but please keep in mind that it's a BETA version.

What issues will it solve ?

Conflicts with dependencies (Tornado, Supervisor, Check dependencies: MysqlDB, Postgres....)
On Centos 5, there is no forwarder which can create some issues (such as no proxy support for Dogstatsd). This will be solved
Full support of Fedora Core
Up-to-date dependencies

What will break ?

If you were using a custom check that needed python dependencies you will have to reinstall them using the bundled pip: * sudo /opt/datadog-agent/embedded/bin/pip install YOUR_DEPENDENCY
Configuring checks in datadog.conf for checks.d is deprecated and won't work anymore. Please configure your checks by editing the yaml files in the conf.d directory.

How to upgrade from a previous version of the Agent ?

On Debian/Ubuntu (All versions/All architectures):

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/datadog.list to include the following: *
```
     deb     http://apt.datadoghq.com/ stable main
```

Run:

     sudo apt-get update
     
     sudo apt-get install datadog-agent

On RHEL/CentOS

If you are running RHEL 5/Centos 5, follow these extra steps:
- Uninstall datadog-agent-base: *
```
    sudo yum remove datadog-agent-base
```
- Edit /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf and comment out the following line:
```
   dogstatsd_target: https://app.datadoghq.com/
```
  should be:
```
   # dogstatsd_target: https://app.datadoghq.com/
```

If you are running on an i386/i686 architecture, edit your /etc/yum.repos.d/datadog.repo to include the following:

    [datadog]
    name = Datadog, Inc. 
    baseurl = http://yum.datadoghq.com/rpm/i386/
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=0

If you are running an x86_64/amd64 architecture edit your /etc/yum.repos.d/datadog.repo to include the following:

    [datadog]
    name = Datadog, Inc. 
    baseurl = http://yum.datadoghq.com/rpm/x86_64/
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=0

Update/Install the Agent: *
```
    sudo yum install datadog-agent
```

How to install from scratch?

Run this script (make sure to replace "YOUR_API_KEY" by your actual API key):

DD_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY bash -c "$(curl -L -k https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DataDog/dd-agent/tsca_install_script/packaging/datadog-agent/source/install_agent.sh)"

How to install with chef?

Use the beta branch of our omnibus cookbook by editing your Berksfile to point to it:

cookbook 'datadog', :git => 'https://github.com/datadog/chef-datadog.git', :ref => "omnibus"

Support

If you have any questions/remarks please ping us:

By email: [email protected]
On IRC: #datadog on freenode
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