Configuration file of the Universal Profiling Agent

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The Universal Profiling Agent can be configured using a configuration file. Specify the path to the configuration file using the CLI argument -config. The default path for the configuration file is /etc/Elastic/universal-profiling/pf-host-agent.conf.

The expected format of the configuration file is a plaintext file, where each line holds one option.

Example:

 project-id: 73 secret-token: abc123 collection-agent: example.com:443

Warning

Command line arguments to the Universal Profiling Agent take precedence over environment variables, and environment variables take precedence over the configuration file.

Config file option	Type	Example	Description
`verbose`	`bool`	`verbose: true`	Run the Universal Profiling Agent in verbose mode.
`no-kernel-version-check`	`bool`	`no-kernel-version-check: true`	Disable the kernel version check. See Override kernel version check for more details.
`tags`	`string`	`tags: 'cloud_region:us-central1;env:staging'`	Set specific tags. See Tag data for querying for more details.
`project-id`	`uint`	`project-id: 73`	Splits profiling data into logical groups that you control. You can assign any non-zero, unsigned integer ⇐ 4095.
`secret-token`	`string`	`secret-token: abc123`	Set the secret token for communicating with the Universal Profiling Collector to `abc123`.
`collection-agent`	`string`	`collection-agent: example.com:443`	Set the destination for reporting profiling information to `example.com:443`.
`probabilistic-interval`	`duration`	`probabilistic-interval: 2m30s`	Set the probabilistic interval to `2m30s`. See Probabilistic profiling for more details.
`probabilistic-threshold`	`uint`	`probabilistic-threshold: 50`	Set the probabilistic threshold to `50`. See Probabilistic profiling for more details.