Open timmc-edx opened 7 months ago
Hi @timmc-edx,
Were your host's service logs, agent configcheck
, and agent diagnose
not adequate in troubleshooting this?
PS: More-directly to your suggestion, since log_file
itself is configured within that yaml itself it's a bit of a catch-22 to implement such a feature without some tricky considerations.
I didn't try those, but it does appear that they would have helped. Maybe one or both of those could be listed on the agent troubleshooting page? (That's where I looked for guidance.)
(Oddly enough, I can't find any system log files that cover service
start/stop.)
@timmc-edx I'll take a look at the troubleshooting page to see if we can improve it. As for service log files, depending on the platform (I'm assuming Linux and VM/host install) you should be able to do: sudo journalctl -u datadog-agent -f
Thanks!
But yeah, there's no journalctl on this system -- I'm using the documented service
command to start the agent, rather than systemd (which doesn't seem to be available here.)
Same problem-ish just this morning. Fresh install, and all was well setting:
dogstatsd_non_local_traffic: true
Then i set apm_non_local_traffic: true
, and I get a failure to start the service.
datadog-agent diagnose
just says:
Error: unable to load Datadog config file: While parsing config: yaml: line 1285: did not find expected key
That would be the line for apm_non_local_traffic
.
I do get the same message in journalctl for that service as well, but there is indeed, nothing in /var/log/datadog/agent.log
In this case, I get the error now, which really means, "the indent level is wrong, make sure to uncomment the # apm_config:
line too", but yea, I had to dig a bit to get to the error.
Agent Environment 7.51.0 on Ubuntu in a Docker container
Describe what happened: I made a syntax error in
/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml
(accidentally typed.
on the first line, which was otherwise blank) and couldn't figure out why the agent was failing to start/Describe what you expected: I would expect there to be error logs in
/var/log/datadog/agent.log
indicating a config error, but there were no new logs there at all.