Installing the Datadog Agent

The Datadog Agent can be configured to run in multiple ways for it to monitor the infrastructure and the processes, including microservices in the environment where it runs. It can run at the host level and as a microservice and the actual configuration would usually depend on how the application software is deployed.

Runtime configurations

There are multiple ways you can deploy the Datadog Agent in runtime environments to collect events and data, and such configurations depend largely on how the applications are deployed. For example, if all the applications run directly on the host, then the Datadog Agent is run directly on the host as well. Let's look at the common runtime configurations.

The Datadog Agent can be configured to run in three different ways locally, as illustrated in the diagrams shown as follows. In all the cases, the agent also collects data on the infrastructure health in addition to collecting application-specific metrics...