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Install the Datadog Agent

The Datadog Agent is a lightweight piece of open-source software that runs on your hosts and collects events and metrics for analysis. Download the Datadog Agent now and get started with Datadog.

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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. It can run on your local hosts (Windows, MacOS), containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes), and in on-premises data centers. You can install and configure it using configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible).

The Agent is able to collect 75 to 100 system level metrics every 15 to 20 seconds. With additional configuration, the Agent can send live data, logs, and traces from running processes to the Datadog Platform The Datadog Agent is open source and its source code is available on GitHub at DataDog/datadog-agent.

 

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Lightweight Overhead

  • The Datadog Agent is designed to process the maximum amount of data, as quickly as possible, with as low of CPU use as possible.
  • Out of the box, you can expect the Datadog agent to use ~0.08% of the CPU.

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