Uninstall the infrastructure agent

Your hosts are added automatically when you install the infrastructure agent for your Linux or Windows operating system, or update the agent. Similarly, your hosts disappear automatically when you uninstall the agent. You do not need to manually add or remove your hosts.

Uninstalling the agent does not directly affect any of your integrations. To uninstall an integration, see Uninstall integrations.

Uninstall the Linux infrastructure agent

If you used the default install procedure for your infrastructure agent for Linux environments, use your package management tools to uninstall it. You do not need to stop the service before running the uninstall command.

$
sudo apt-get remove newrelic-infra

$
sudo yum remove newrelic-infra

$
sudo zypper -n remove newrelic-infra

If you followed an assisted or manual installation process, you need to manually delete all the files created when you unpacked the agent file.

Uninstall the Windows infrastructure agent

If you used the default install procedure for the infrastructure agent for Windows environments, to uninstall:

1. Ensure you have Administrator rights in your Windows admin group.
2. Stop the infrastructure agent.
3. From the Windows Control Panel, use the Add/Remove Programs and Features tool to uninstall the infrastructure agent.
4. From the Windows Program Files, manually delete the New Relic folder to delete all files associated with the infrastructure agent for Windows.

If you followed an assisted or manual installation process, you need to manually delete all the files created when you unpacked the agent file.

Uninstall the macOS infrastructure agent

If you used the default install procedure for the infrastructure agent for macOS environments, to uninstall:

1. Stop the infrastructure agent:

   bash

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   $
   brew services stop newrelic-infra-agent

2. From the terminal, run the uninstall command:

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   $
   brew uninstall newrelic-infra-agent

Uninstall using config management tools

To uninstall the infrastructure agent if you used a configuration management tool:

Optional: Purge remaining files

If you use standard package management tools for your selected platform, the uninstall process typically leaves configuration and other miscellaneous files. If you need to completely purge any of the remaining files after uninstalling the New Relic infrastructure agent, follow standard procedures for your operating system.