title: Datadog Agent Error : Unable to collect configurations from provider docker: temporary failure in dockerutil
body: <p>Datadog installation: using helm was successful </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p><a href="https://docs.datadoghq.com/agent/kubernetes/?tab=helm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Docs used</a></p></li>
  <li><p>Agent version (7.19.0)</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Agent Status</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-sh prettyprint-override"><code>$ kubectl exec -it datadog-release-7jttj agent status | egrep "OK|ERROR"        
  Defaulting container name to agent.
  Use 'kubectl describe pod/datadog-release-7jttj -n default' to see all of the containers in this pod.
        Instance ID: cpu [OK]
        Instance ID: disk:e5dffb8bef24336f [OK]
        Instance ID: docker [ERROR]
        Instance ID: file_handle [OK]
        Instance ID: io [OK]
        Instance ID: kubelet:d884b5186b651429 [OK]
        Instance ID: kubernetes_apiserver [OK]
        Instance ID: load [OK]
        Instance ID: memory [OK]
        Instance ID: network:e0204ad63d43c949 [OK]
        Instance ID: ntp:d884b5186b651429 [OK]
        Instance ID: uptime [OK]
  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Error in Logs</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-sh prettyprint-override"><code>$ kubectl logs -f datadog-release-7jttj agent | grep "ERROR"
  2020-05-03 14:49:17 UTC | CORE | ERROR | (pkg/collector/runner/runner.go:292 in work) | Error running check docker: temporary failure in dockerutil, will retry later: try delay not elapsed yet
  2020-05-03 14:49:18 UTC | CORE | ERROR | (pkg/autodiscovery/config_poller.go:123 in collect) | Unable to collect configurations from provider docker: temporary failure in dockerutil, will retry later: try delay not elapsed yet
  2020-05-03 14:49:19 UTC | CORE | ERROR | (pkg/autodiscovery/config_poller.go:123 in collect) | Unable to collect configurations from provider docker: temporary failure in dockerutil, will retry later: try delay not elapsed yet
  2020-05-03 14:49:20 UTC | CORE | ERROR | (pkg/autodiscovery/config_poller.go:123 in collect) | Unable to collect configurations from provider docker: temporary failure in dockerutil, will retry later: try delay not elapsed yet
  2020-05-03 14:49:21 UTC | CORE | ERROR | (pkg/autodiscovery/config_poller.go:123 in collect) | Unable to collect configurations from provider docker: temporary failure in dockerutil, will retry later: try delay not elapsed yet
  2020-05-03 14:49:22 UTC | CORE | ERROR | (pkg/autodiscovery/config_poller.go:123 in collect) | Unable to collect configurations from provider docker: temporary failure in dockerutil, will retry later: try delay not elapsed yet
  2020-05-03 14:49:23 UTC | CORE | ERROR | (pkg/autodiscovery/config_poller.go:123 in collect) | Unable to collect configurations from provider docker: temporary failure in dockerutil, will retry later: try delay not elapsed yet
  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>ERROR which i see in log agent and the same is true for all pods</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-sh prettyprint-override"><code> default/datadog-release-7jttj/init-config
    -----------------------------------------
      Type: file
      Path: /var/log/pods/default_datadog-release-7jttj_b373c792-b5da-46b9-a906-1fd71e9a41bc/init-config/*.log
      Status: Error: could not find any file matching pattern /var/log/pods/default_datadog-release-7jttj_b373c792-b5da-46b9-a906-1fd71e9a41bc/init-config/*.log, check that all its subdirectories are executable
        0 files tailed out of 0 files matching
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Not sure where I am going wrong. Any help is highly appreciated.</p>