Nginx forward proxy for Datadog agent

If your network configuration restrict outbound traffic you can proxy all the outbound traffic through a web proxy, for example nginx. This repository includes a working example of a nginx forwarder proxy that you can configure your Datadog agent to use.

Build and run the docker image

The dockerfile in this repository is using nginx with the ngx_http_proxy_connect_module, the nginx.conf only allows outbound traffic to datadog domains *.datadoghq.eu and *.datadoghq.com, it also blocks all outgoing traffic to other domains by default.

1. Build the image docker build -t datadog-nginx-forward-proxy .

2. Run the container docker run -d p 8888:8888 datadog-nginx-forward-proxy

Configure your Datadog agent to use the proxy

Traditional web proxies are supported natively by the Datadog agent. If you need to connect to the Internet through a proxy, edit your agent configuration file datadog.yaml to include:

proxy:
    https: "http://<PROXY_SERVER>:8888"
    http: "http://<PROXY_SERVER>:8888"

See Datadog's official documentation for additional information.

Credits

Thanks goes to these wonderful people:

• Robert Reiz (@reiz) – https://github.com/reiz/nginx_proxy
• Oskar Rittsél (@rittsel) – Datadog Inc.