This page outlines the basic features of the Datadog Agent for CentOS and its derivatives, Rocky Linux and Alma Linux. To install the Datadog Agent, follow the Agent Installation Instructions for CentOS.
Packages are available for 64-bit x86 and Arm v8 architectures. For other architectures, use the source install.
Note: CentOS 6 and above are supported on the 64-bit x86 architecture. CentOS/Rocky/Alma 8 and above are supported on the 64-bit Arm v8 architecture.
In Agent v6 and v7, the service manager provided by the operating system is responsible for the Agent lifecycle, while other commands must be run through the Agent binary directly. In Agent v5, almost everything is done through the service manager.
If you installed the Agent with Single Step APM Instrumentation, and you want to uninstall the Agent, you need to run additional commands to uninstall APM Instrumentation.
The Agent contains an embedded Python environment at /opt/datadog-agent/embedded/. Common binaries such as python and pip are contained within /opt/datadog-agent/embedded/bin/.