Datadog Agent for Render

Datadog helps you capture application traces and metrics that can help you improve the performance for your app.

You can set up a single Datadog agent to capture data for any number of services in your Render account.

This example deploys Datadog's Docker agent as a private service on Render. Once deployed, you can start sending APM/Distributed Tracing and DogStatsD metrics to your private service URL.

The URL will look like datadog-agent-lkyz with APM available on TCP port 8126 and DogStatsD on UDP port 8125.

You will need to configure your Datadog API key by setting the DD_API_KEY environment variable to your private service.

Custom configurations

You can create a secret file in render with the following name pattern conf.d_<integration_name>_<file_name.yaml? and this will be copied to its respective location in the container /etc/datadog-agent/conf.d/<integration_name>/<file_name>.

Example: conf.d_postgres.d_conf.yaml will be copied to /etc/datadog-agent/conf.d/postgres.d/conf.yaml

Database monitoring

Create a secret file in Render named conf.d_postgres.d_conf.yaml and content:

init_config:
instances:
  - dbm: true
    host: <DB_HOST>
    port: <DB_PORT>
    username: datadog
    password: <DB_PASSWORD>
    dbname: <DB_NAME>
    ssl: prefer
    dbstrict: true