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.
You're looking at the source code right now. We provide a number of pre-packaged binaries for your convenience.
Change log
How to contribute code
First of all and most importantly, thank you for sharing.
If you want to submit code, please fork this repository and submit pull requests against the master branch.
Please note that the Agent is licensed for simplicity's sake
under a simplified BSD license, as indicated in the LICENSE file.
Exceptions are marked with LICENSE-xxx where xxx is the component name.
If you do not agree with the licensing terms and wish to contribute code nonetheless,
please email us at info@datadoghq.com before submitting your
pull request.
How to configure the Agent
If you are using packages on linux, the main configuration file lives
in /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf. Per-check configuration files are in
/etc/dd-agent/conf.d. We provide an example in the same directory
that you can use as a template.
How to write your own checks
Writing your own checks is easy using our checks.d interface. Read more about how to use it on our Guide to Agent Checks.
Contributors
git log --all | gawk '/Author/ {print}' | sort | uniq