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Configuration

Environment Variables

You can adjust the configuration of Sematext Agent with additional environment variables:

Variable Description
Firewall and Proxy Settings
PROXY_HOST, PROXY_PORT, PROXY_PASSWORD, PROXY_USERNAME These variables specify the settings for the proxy server.
Docker Connection Options
DOCKER_TRANSPORT Defines the transport protocol for communication with Docker daemon. The default transport is UNIX domain socket (unix:///var/run/docker.sock). For TCP transport you have to specify an IP address that's reachable from container (DOCKER_TRANSPORT=tcp://ip-reachable-from-container:2375/).
DOCKER_CERT_PATH Specifies the path to your certificate files when communication with Docker daemon is carried out over secure channel.
Container Monitoring
CONTAINER_ENABLED Determines whether the container collector is enabled. Default value is true. To disable container collector set CONTAINER_ENABLED=false.
CONTAINER_MATCH_BY_IMAGE, CONTAINER_MATCH_BY_NAME These variables control the inclusion of detected containers either by image or container name. Can contain a comma separated list of full container/images names or regular expression patterns (CONTAINER_MATCH_BY_IMAGE=nginx,mongo*).
CONTAINER_SKIP_BY_IMAGE, CONTAINER_SKIP_BY_NAME These variables control the exclusion of detected containers either by image or container name. Can contain a comma separated list of full container/images names or regular expression patterns (CONTAINER_SKIP_BY_IMAGE=nginx,mongo*).
Kubernetes Settings
KUBERNETES_ENABLED Specifies if the Kubernetes monitoring functionality is active. Default value is true. To disable Kubernetes collector set KUBERNETES_ENABLED=false.
KUBERNETES_EVENTS_NAMESPACE Designates a namespace for Kubernetes event watcher. By default all namespaces are watched for Kubernetes events and forwarded to event/log receivers.
KUBERNETES_NAMESPACES Defines the comma separated list of namespaces that are queried for Kubernetes resources such as pods or deployments. By default all namespaces are fetched. You can adjust specific namespaces such as KUBERNETES_NAMESPACES=default,kube-system.
KUBERNETES_INTERVAL Defines the collection interval for Kubernetes resources (default 10s)
KUBERNETES_CLUSTER_ID Uniquely identifies the cluster where agent is deployed
KUBERNETES_KUBELET_AUTH_TOKEN Specifies the path for account service token
KUBERNETES_KUBELET_CA_PATH Determines the file path for the certificate authority utilized during TLS verification
KUBERNETES_KUBELET_CERT_PATH Determines the file path for the certificate file utilized during TLS verification
KUBERNETES_KUBELET_KEY_PATH Determines the file path for the private key utilized during TLS verification
KUBERNETES_KUBELET_INSECURE_SKIP_TLS_VERIFY Indicates whether to skip TLS verification
KUBERNETES_KUBELET_METRICS_PORT Specifies the port where kubelet Prometheus metrics are exposed (default 10250)
Process Monitoring
PROCESS_ENABLED Specifies if process metrics collection is enabled. To disable process metrics collector set PROCESS_ENABLED=false.
Network Monitoring
NETRACER_ENABLED Controls whether network topology collector is turned on. Network tracer is disabled by default. To enable network tracer set NETRACER_ENABLED=true. In order to capture network traffic from the host, you should start the container with host networking by passing the --network=host argument to Docker engine. This is only required when pcap network tracer is used.
NETRACER_INPUT_FILTER, NETRACER_OUTPUT_FILTER When specified, applies filtering expressions to all inbound/outbound packets (NETRACER_INPUT_FILTER="dst port 8923 and tcp").
NETRACER_INTERFACES A comma-separated list of network interfaces to monitor. By default all interfaces are tracked.
NETRACER_LOOPBACK Determines whether loopback interfaces should be captured for network traffic. By default network packets are not captured from loopback interfaces.
NETRACER_EBPF_TRACK_TCP Determines whether TCP connections are tracked by ebpf tracer. By default TCP traffic statistics are collected.
NETRACER_EBPF_TRACK_UDP Determines whether UDP connections are tracked by ebpf tracer. By default UDP traffic statistics are collected.
Troubleshooting Options
CPUPROFILE Name of the file where pprof CPU profile is dumped. When provided this turns on the CPU profiling and writes data to a given file.
LOGGING_LEVEL Defines the minimal allowed log level. Default log level is info. You can choose between debug, info, warn/warning, error, fatal and panic.
LOGGING_WRITE_EVENTS Defines whether event payloads are written to standard output stream. Useful for debugging. You can disable this feature by passing LOGGING_WRITE_EVENTS=false environment variable during container bootstrap.
Other Agent Settings
INTERVAL Specifies the collection interval for metrics collectors. Default interval is 10s. You can specify a duration for collection interval in seconds, minutes or hours (INTERVAL=1m).
JOURNAL_DIR Defines the data directory where failed events are stored. Agent periodically scans this directory and resends events to the backend.
JOURNAL_RETRY_INTERVAL Specifies how often journal directory is scanned for failed events. Default interval is 30s. You can specify a different interval in either seconds, minutes or hours (JOURNAL_RETRY_INTERVAL=5m)
AUTODISCO_TEMPLATES_PATH Defines the location of the autodisco.yml file that contains definitions of patterns involved in app auto-discovery.
HOSTNAME_ALIAS When specified it overrides the original host name.