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Agent Metrics integration metrics

The official Datadog integration for monitoring Agent Metrics. It collects 3 metrics.

Official summary

agent_metrics description.

Metric types

  • gauge (value at a point in time): 2
  • count (occurrences in the interval): 1

Metrics

Descriptions are the official definitions, unedited.

MetricTypeUnit
datadog.agent.python.versionA value of 1, tagged with the Python version.gauge-
datadog.agent.runningA value of 1 if the Agent is running and reporting to Datadog, tagged with the Agent version.gauge-
datadog.agent.startedA count of 1 each time the Agent starts.count-

Official documentation

Official documentation for the Agent Metrics integration

Metric names and descriptions are the official Datadog integration definitions (Copyright Datadog, Inc., BSD-3-Clause), reproduced unedited. The full license terms are on the About page.

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