New Relic can collect detailed information about a system's configuration per host, including system modules, configuration files, metadata, packages, services, user sessions, etc. The Inventory page provides a real-time, filterable, searchable view into each host's configuration.

Use the Inventory page to:

Ensure a version update was applied successfully across all your hosts.
Audit version discrepancies across your hosts.
Quickly identify which hosts require an update to fix a security vulnerability.

To view and search your inventory data: Go to one.newrelic.com > Infrastructure > Inventory.

Inventory item naming

The infrastructure inventory is a qualified namespace (structured like a directory) that organizes inventory items into names that resemble a source path. The inventory item name is comprised of three elements:

Element	Description
Category	Basic, top level type of data source, typically based on its role in the system. Common examples include config, package, kernel, user session, services, and modules.
Source	The specific data source for the inventory item.
Label	The name of the specific inventory item; for example, the filename, package name, or system setting name. Tip Use tagging for detailed metadata and other information about your hosts .

Page functions

Use Inventory page functions to find information about a particular item on your hosts:

Inventory item details provide host and system information for each host it resides on according to the New Relic inventory item name. If you have different versions of the same item on other hosts, New Relic detects that and flags them on the Inventory page with the variant hosts label and lists each host running each version.

Item details are attributes (key/value pairs) that are dictated by their source. Specific attributes are generally stable over time, but new ones may be added and others could be deprecated. Attributes carry the critical metadata that are at the heart of each inventory item.

Common inventory item attributes include:

Variant hosts (hostname)
Architecture
Description
Essential
Priority
Status
Version

Inventory data collection

Inventory is collected from the infrastructure agent's built-in data collectors, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) integrations, agent integrations provided by New Relic, and customer-built integrations. The data appears on the Inventory page and in other places within the Infrastructure monitoring's user interface.

The infrastructure agent collects this data for Linux systems.

Category	Source	Data collected using...
applications	`apm`	APM language agent metadata
config	`selinux`	`sestatus -b, semodule -l`
	`selinux-policies`	`sestatus -b, semodule -l`
	`selinux-modules`	`sestatus -b, semodule -l`
	`sshd`	`/etc/sshd_config` (`PermitRootLogin, PermitEmptyPasswords, PasswordAuthentication`, and `ChallengeResponseAuthentication` only)
kernel	`modules`	`/sbin/modinfo, /sbin/lsmod, /proc/modules`
kernel	`sysctl`	`/proc/sys`
metadata	`agent_config`	Agent's complete config file
	`attributes`	Agent's custom_attributes
	`host_aliases`	Agent's display_name, Cloud provider `instance-id, os.Hostname(), hostname -f, hostname`
	`cloud_security_groups`	Cloud provider security-groups
	`system`	`uptime -s, /etc/redhat-release, /proc/cpuinfo, /etc/os-release, /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id, /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease, /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid, /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/sys_vendor, /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name`
	`facter`	`facter -p -j`
services	`daemontool`	`ps -e, svstat`
	`systemd`	`initctl list`
	`upstart`	`systemctl -l, systemctl show, modinfo, lsmod`
	`supervisord`	`/var/run/supervisor.sock unix socket connection, supervisor.getAllProcessInfo`
	`pidfile`	`var/run, find -L -name, /proc/N/status, /proc/N/stat`
sessions	`users`	`who`
system	`network_interfaces`	`net.Interfaces()`
packages	`dpkg`	`dpkg-query -W -f`
packages	`rpm`	`rpm -qa`

The infrastructure agent collects this data for Windows systems.

Category	Source	Data collected using...
applications	`apm`	APM language agent metadata
metadata	`agent_config`	Agent's complete config file
	`attributes`	Agent's custom_attributes
	`host_aliases`	Agent's display_name, Cloud provider instance-id, os.Hostname(), Registry (SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters (Domain, DhcpDomain, Hostname)
	`system`	`kernel32.dll (GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory), WMI (Win32_OperatingSystem, Win32_Processor), os.Hostname()`
services	`windows_services`	WMI (`Win32_Service WHERE State = "Running" AND StartMode = "Auto"`)
system	`network_interfaces`	`net.Interfaces()`
packages	`windows_programs`	Registry (`SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\, SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\`)
packages	`windows_updates`	WMI (`Win32_QuickFixEngineering`) (off by default)

Inventory data retention

Inventory data is real-time. If a host stops reporting, its inventory data still displays for up to 24 hours.

Chart data attributes

For a technical explanation about attributes used to populate the Inventory page, see Default infrastructure attributes and events. This includes a summary of common events by operating system.

Infrastructure Inventory page: Search your entire infrastructure

Inventory item naming

Tip

Page functions

Filter the data

Search inventory

View inventory item details

View host's alert threshold violations

Inventory data collection

Linux built-in agent data

Windows built-in agent data

AWS cloud integrations inventory

Inventory data retention

Chart data attributes