service · inferred from evidence
agent status
A command or endpoint to check the status of the container agent.
- Diag: docker socket permission denied, fix group membership not chmod
Runbook for docker.sock permission denied: the agent user cannot read the Docker socket so container checks never populate. Fix group membership, not file perms.
- Diag: DD_API_KEY not set, trace the secret reference chain
Runbook for DD_API_KEY not set: the container agent starts with no key because the env var never reached the process. Trace the secret reference chain.
- Diag: agent wont start, read the parse error, bisect the last edit
Runbook for the agent service failing to start: read the config parse error, validate the yaml, and bisect recent edits. Never reinstall first.
- Autodiscovery ignoring your check: annotations belong on the workload pods
Autodiscovery annotations on the wrong pods, or check config that never loads: the integration check does not run and there is no error, just missing metrics.