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/opt/datadog-agent/embedded/bin/security-agent

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

From datadog-agent-7.72 7.72.4-r25 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running security-agent --help (exit 0). permalink

Datadog Security Agent takes care of running compliance and security checks.

Usage:
  datadog-security-agent [command]

Available Commands:
  check         Run compliance check(s)
  completion    Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  compliance    Compliance Agent utility commands
  config        Print the runtime configuration of a running agent
  flare         Collect a flare and send it to Datadog
  help          Help about any command
  start         Start the Security Agent
  status        Print the current status
  version       Print the version info
  workload-list Print the workload content of a running agent

Flags:
  -c, --cfgpath stringArray      paths to yaml configuration files (default [/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml,/etc/datadog-agent/security-agent.yaml])
  -h, --help                     help for datadog-security-agent
  -n, --no-color                 disable color output
      --sysprobe-config string   path to system-probe.yaml config (default "/etc/datadog-agent/system-probe.yaml")

Use "datadog-security-agent [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Options (4)
OptionDescriptionSource
-c, --cfgpath stringArraypaths to yaml configuration files (default [/etc/datadog-agent/datadog.yaml,/etc/datadog-agent/security-agent.yaml])help
-h, --helphelp for datadog-security-agenthelp
-n, --no-colordisable color outputhelp
--sysprobe-config stringpath to system-probe.yaml config (default "/etc/datadog-agent/system-probe.yaml")help

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