Environment variables to configure the Universal Profiling Agent

The Universal Profiling Agent can be configured with environment variables.

Warning

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

Environment variable	Example	Description
PRODFILER_VERBOSE	PRODFILER_VERBOSE=true	Run the Universal Profiling Agent in verbose mode.
PRODFILER_NO_KERNEL_VERSION_CHECK	PRODFILER_NO_KERNEL_VERSION_CHECK=true	Disable the kernel version check. See Override kernel version check for more details.
PRODFILER_TAGS	PRODFILER_TAGS="cloud_region:us-central1;env:staging"	Set specific tags. See Tag data for querying for more details.
PRODFILER_PROJECT_ID	PRODFILER_PROJECT_ID=73	Set project ID to 73.
PRODFILER_SECRET_TOKEN	PRODFILER_SECRET_TOKEN=my_secret_token	Set the secret token to my_secret_token.
PRODFILER_COLLECTION_AGENT	PRODFILER_COLLECTION_AGENT=example.com:443	Set the destination for reporting profiling information to example.com:443.
PRODFILER_PROBABILISTIC_THRESHOLD	PRODFILER_PROBABILISTIC_THRESHOLD=50	Set the probabilistic threshold to 50. See Probabilistic profiling for more details.
PRODFILER_PROBABILISTIC_INTERVAL	PRODFILER_PROBABILISTIC_INTERVAL=2m30s	Set the probabilistic interval to 2m30s. See Probabilistic profiling for more details.
PRODFILER_CONFIG	PRODFILER_CONFIG=/etc/Elastic/universal-profiling/pf-host-agent.conf	Set the path for the configuration file of the Universal Profiling Agent. See Configuration file of the Universal Profiling Agent for more details.