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Chapter 3. Configuring the Datadog Agent for Ceph

After installing the Datadog agent, configure the Datadog agent to report Ceph metrics to Datadog.

  1. Navigate to the Datadog Agent configuration directory. 

    # cd /etc/dd-agent/conf.d
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  2. Create a ceph.yaml file from the ceph.yml.sample file. 

    # cp ceph.yaml.example ceph.yaml
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  3. Modify the ceph.yaml file. 

    # vim ceph.yaml
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    It will look like this: 

    init_config:

instances:
#  - tags:
#    - name:mars_cluster
#
#    ceph_cmd: /usr/bin/ceph
#    ceph_cluster: ceph
#
# If your environment requires sudo, please add a line like:
#          dd-agent ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/ceph
# to your sudoers file, and uncomment the below option.
#
#    use_sudo: True
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    Uncomment the -tags, -name, ceph_command and ceph_cluster lines. The default values for ceph_command and ceph_cluster are /usr/bin/ceph and ceph respectively. For RHEL 7, uncomment use_sudo: True; however, this step is optional for Ubuntu, since Ubuntu disables the root user and gives the initial admin user root permissions.

    When complete, it will look like this: 

    init_config:

instances:
  - tags:
    - name:ceph-RHEL
#
    ceph_cmd: /usr/bin/ceph
    ceph_cluster: ceph
#
# If your environment requires sudo, please add a line like:
#          dd-agent ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/ceph
# to your sudoers file, and uncomment the below option.
#
    use_sudo: True
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  4. For RHEL 7, modify the sudoers file. 

    # visudo
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    Add the following line. 

    dd-agent ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/ceph
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    Note

    For Ubuntu, if ceph.yml enables use_sudo: True, perform this step, too.

  5. Enable the Datadog agent so that it will restart if the Ceph host reboots. 

    # systemctl enable datadog-agent
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  6. Finally, restart the Datadog agent. 
# systemctl status datadog-agent
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