Basic Configuration

By default the agent requires one configuration option. This is the api_key. As you noticed in the install, you can assign this with a flag when you run the install script. 

Further configuration can be done within the agent.json file. At a minimum, you will want to specify one or more logfile paths, which the agent will then stream to DataSet- more details here.. You may also provide additional metadata like tier: "production" - these will come through to DataSet as Server Fields and provide your users with additional search and filtering options - more details here.

The main agent config location is located here 

cd /etc/scalyr-agent-2/

Here is an example configuration file. 

vim agent.json

{
// Enter a "Write Logs" api key for your account. These are available at https://www.scalyr.com/keys
   api_key: "KEY_HERE",

// Fields describing this server. These fields are attached to each log message, and
// can be used to filter data from a particular server or group of servers.
   server_attributes: {
// Fill in this field if you'd like to override the server's hostname.
      serverHost: "REPLACE THIS",

// You can add whatever additional fields you'd like.
// tier: "production"
}

// Log files to upload to Scalyr. You can use '*' wildcards here.
   logs: [
     { path: "/tmp/log", attributes: {parser: "accessLog"} }
],

   monitors: [
{
     module: "scalyr_agent.builtin_monitors.mysql_monitor",
     database_socket: "default",
     database_username: "USERNAME",
     database_password: "PASSWORD"
}
]


}

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