Flare Generation¶

A flare contains essential troubleshooting information that is sent to the Datadog support team to assist in resolving Datadog support tickets.

To generate a flare for ECS Fargate:¶

On your ECS Fargate service in CDK, set the enableExecuteCommand to true.

const service = new abcBlueGreenApplicationLoadBalancedFargateService(this, 'FargateService', {
      serviceName: APP_NAME,
      cluster: cluster,
      ...
      ...
      enableExecuteCommand : true
    })

From your terminal, log in to your AWS Account, assuming the elevated engineer role where the container is running.
```
sde login --workload=<workload> --role=<role> --env=<env> --version=2 --assume=Engineer
```

Run the following command to generate the flare:

aws ecs execute-command --cluster <CLUSTER_NAME> \
    --task <TASK_ID> \
    --container datadog-agent \
    --interactive \
    --command "agent flare <CASE_ID>"

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