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/opt/datadog-agent/embedded/bin/process-agent

Collect events and metrics from your hosts that send data to Datadog.

From datadog-agent-fips-7.77 7.77.3-r39 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running process-agent --help (exit 0). permalink

Usage:
   [flags]
   [command]

Available Commands:
  check         Run a specific check and print the results. Choose from: process, rtprocess, container, rtcontainer, connections, process_discovery
  completion    Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  config        Print the runtime configuration of a running agent
  help          Help about any command
  status        Print the current status
  tagger-list   Print the tagger content of a running agent
  version       Print the version info
  workload-list Print the workload content of a running agent

Flags:
      --cfgpath string           Path to datadog.yaml config (default "/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml")
      --check string             [deprecated] Run a specific check and print the results. Choose from: process, rtprocess, container, rtcontainer, connections, process_discovery
  -h, --help                     help for this command
  -n, --no-color                 disable color output
  -p, --pid string               Path to set pidfile for process
      --sysprobe-config string   Path to system-probe.yaml config (default "/etc/datadog-agent/system-probe.yaml")
  -v, --version                  [deprecated] Print the version and exit

Use " [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Options (7)
OptionDescriptionSource
--cfgpath stringPath to datadog.yaml config (default "/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml")help
--check string[deprecated] Run a specific check and print the results.help
-h, --helphelp for this commandhelp
-n, --no-colordisable color outputhelp
-p, --pid stringPath to set pidfile for processhelp
--sysprobe-config stringPath to system-probe.yaml config (default "/etc/datadog-agent/system-probe.yaml")help
-v, --version[deprecated] Print the version and exithelp

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.