Configure Datadog Agent

The Datadog Agent can forward logs to Bronto in addition to Datadog using the additional_endpoints configuration. This page covers configuration only. For installation instructions, see the Datadog Agent documentation.

Endpoint and authentication

Use the ingestion endpoint for your Bronto region:

Region	Host
EU	`ingestion.eu.bronto.io`
US	`ingestion.us.bronto.io`

Set api_key to your Bronto API key.

Configuration

Linux
Kubernetes/Helm

Edit ~/.datadog-agent/datadog.yaml to add Bronto as an additional log endpoint:

datadog.yaml

logs_config:
  additional_endpoints:
    - api_key: "<YOUR_API_KEY>"
      host: "ingestion.<REGION>.bronto.io"
      port: 443
      is_reliable: true

By default, the dataset and collection where logs are sent are derived from the service and source tags reported by the Datadog Agent. These can be overridden with the br_dataset and br_collection log attributes if required.

Add Bronto as an additional endpoint by upgrading the Datadog Agent Helm chart:

helm upgrade datadog-agent -f datadog-values.yaml datadog/datadog

datadog-values.yaml

datadog:
  podAnnotationsAsTags:
    kubernetes.annotations.logs.bronto.io/collection: br_collection
  logs:
    enabled: true
  customAgentConfig:
    logs_config:
      additional_endpoints:
        - api_key: "<BRONTO_API_KEY>"
          host: "ingestion.<REGION>.bronto.io"
          port: 443
          is_reliable: true

Add the kubernetes.annotations.logs.bronto.io/collection annotation to pods whose logs should be forwarded to Bronto. Set its value to a unique identifier for the cluster, e.g. <CLUSTER_NAME>-<ENVIRONMENT>-<REGION>. The podAnnotationsAsTags entry maps this annotation to the br_collection log attribute, which Bronto uses to determine which collection to save the log data under.

For the full additional_endpoints configuration reference, see the Datadog Agent log forwarding documentation.

Verify Log Collection

Once you have applied your configuration and restarted the Datadog Agent, you can expect to see your log data being ingested to Bronto and accessible via the Search page.

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