Datadog Agent Installation on AWS EC2 (Linux Server) and Sending Logs to Datadog Cloud

Datadog Agent Installation on AWS EC2 (Linux Server) and Sending Logs to Datadog Cloud 1.Prerequisites An active Datadog account ( https://app.datadoghq.com ) A running AWS EC2 instance (Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, or other Linux distribution) Root or sudo access to the EC2 instance Your Datadog API key (found under Integrations → APIs in the Datadog dashboard) 2.Connect to Your EC2 Instance Use SSH to connect: ssh -i /path/to/your-key.pem ec2-user@ 3.Install the Datadog Agent For Amazon Linux or RHEL-based systems DD_API_KEY= DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" bash -c "$(curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-agent/scripts/install_script.sh) " For Ubuntu or Debian-based systems DD_API_KEY= DD_SITE="datadoghq.com" bash -c "$(curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-agent/scripts/install_script.sh) " 4.Enable and Start the Agent sudo systemctl enable datadog-agent sudo systemctl start datadog-agent Check the agent status: sudo datadog-agent status 5.Enable Log Collection Edit the Datadog Agent configuration fil