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Supported agent types

Important

Agent Control and New Relic Control are now generally available for Kubernetes! Support for Linux hosts is also in public preview program, pursuant to our pre-release policies.

Overview

Agent Control provides a single, unified platform for managing a wide variety of New Relic and OpenTelemetry agents across your fleets. By centralizing management, you can deploy, configure, and update your instrumentation with ease.

While Agent Control is designed to support both containerized and on-premise environments, support for specific agent types varies. The following table provides a comprehensive overview of which agents can be managed by Agent Control and their support status across environments.

Current support

Agent typeKubernetes supportLinux host support
New Relic infrastructure agent✅ YesPublic Preview
New Relic OpenTelemetry Collector (NRDOT)✅ Yes✅ Yes
Fluent Bit✅ Yes🚫 No
New Relic Prometheus agent✅ Yes🚫 No
New Relic eBPF agent✅ Yes🚫 No
APM agents (.NET, Java, Node, Python, Ruby)🚫 No🚫 No

Important

Agent-specific permissions: Agent Control is designed to provide you with flexible permissions management. While Agent Control itself requires a certain level of access to function, the permissions it grants to individual agents are tailored to their specific needs. Below, you can find a breakdown of the permissions required for each agent type.

Required Permissions per agent type

Agent TypeKey Permissions RequiredEnvironment
New Relic infrastructure agentHost-level access for system metrics and Kubernetes API access for cluster data.Kubernetes / host-based
New Relic OpenTelemetry Collector (NRDOT)Permissions depend on specific receivers and exporters. Often requires Kubernetes API access for service discovery.Kubernetes / host-based
Fluent BitRead access to pod and container logs.Kubernetes
New Relic Prometheus agentPermissions to discover and access service endpoints within the cluster for scraping metrics.Kubernetes
New Relic eBPF agentElevated privileges (for example, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) to load eBPF programs on the host kernel.Kubernetes
APM agents (.NET, Java, Node, Python, Ruby)Not currently supported by Agent Control.N/A
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