Basic Configuration

By default, the Agent requires one configuration parameter. This is the api_key field. As you noticed in the install, you can assign this with a flag when you run the installation 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 (see this page for more information).

You may also provide additional metadata like tier: "production" - these will come through to DataSet as server attributes and will provide your users with additional search and filtering options.

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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