Agent Install: Manual Linux Installation

Manual installation of the native Linux agent is recommended in the following cases:

Full control over the deployment process
Integration with configuration management tools
Custom kernel
Unsupported distribution (within Debian/Fedora flavors)

Otherwise, you may want to just follow the standard Installation Guide:

Agent Install: Non-Orchestrated

NOTE: If you are installing the Sysdig agent in an orchestrated infrastructure such as Kubernetes, Mesos/Marathon, use the respective Installation Guides:

Run the commands as root or with sudo.

Installation Options

Review the Host Requirements for Agent Installation. Then follow the steps for the appropriate Linux distribution, below.

Debian, Ubuntu

Trust the Sysdig Monitor GPG key, configure the apt repository, and update the package list:

curl -s https://download.sysdig.com/DRAIOS-GPG-KEY.public | apt-key add -
curl -s -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/draios.list http://download.sysdig.com/stable/deb/draios.list
apt-get update

Install kernel development files.
The following command might not work with every kernel. Make sure to customize the name of the package properly.
```
apt-get -y install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
```
Install, configure, and restart the Sysdig agent.
```
apt-get -y install draios-agent
echo customerid: ACCESS_KEY >> /opt/draios/etc/dragent.yaml
echo tags: [TAGS] >> /opt/draios/etc/dragent.yaml
service dragent restart
```
Replace ACCESS_KEY with your unique access key string. Inability to retrieve the key indicates that the administrator of your instance might have it turned off for non-admin users. Please contact your Sysdig administrator to receive the key. If you still have issues please contact Sysdig support.
[TAGS] is an optional parameter you can use to list one or more tags for this host (see below).

CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Amazon AMI, Amazon Linux 2

Trust the Sysdig Monitor GPG key, configure the yum repository.

$ rpm --import https://download.sysdig.com/DRAIOS-GPG-KEY.public
$ curl -s -o /etc/yum.repos.d/draios.repo http://download.sysdig.com/stable/rpm/draios.repo

Install the EPEL repository
The following command is required only if DKMS is not available in the distribution. You can verify if DKMS is available with yum list dkms
The command below contains a sample release number; be sure to update with the correct release.
```
$ rpm -i http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
```
Install kernel development files.
The following command might not work with every kernel. Make sure to customize the name of the package properly.
```
$ yum -y install kernel-devel-$(uname -r)
```
Install, configure, and start the Sysdig agent.
```
$ yum -y install draios-agent
$ echo customerid: ACCESS_KEY >> /opt/draios/etc/dragent.yaml
$ echo tags: [TAGS] >> /opt/draios/etc/dragent.yaml
$ sudo systemctl enable dragent
$ sudo systemctl start dragent
```
Replace ACCESS_KEY with your unique access key string. Inability to retrieve the key indicates that the administrator of your instance might have it turned off for non-admin users. Please contact your Sysdig administrator to receive the key. If you still have issues please contact Sysdig support.
[TAGS] is an optional parameter you can use to list one or more tags for this host (see below).
If you using a non-systemd Linux distribution, use the service command to start dragent.
```
$ service dragent restart
```

Other Linux Distributions

The Sysdig Agent is unsupported outside of the Debian, Fedora, and Amazon distributions.

Agent Tags

Tagging your hosts is highly recommended. Agent Tags allow you to sort nodes of your infrastructure into custom groups in Sysdig Monitor.

Replace the [TAGS] parameter above with a comma-separated list of TAG_NAME:TAG_VALUE .

For example: role:webserver,location:europe