Installation

Learn how to install NGINX Agent.

Install NGINX

NGINX Agent interfaces directly with an NGINX server process installed on the same system. If you don’t have it already, follow these steps to install NGINX Open Source or NGINX Plus. Once installed, ensure the NGINX instance is running.

Install Agent from Package Files

To install NGINX Agent on your system, go to Releases and download the latest package supported by your OS distribution and CPU architecture.

Use your system’s package manager to install the package. Some examples:

Debian, Ubuntu, and other distributions using the dpkg package manager.
```
sudo dpkg -i nginx-agent-<agent-version>.deb
```
RHEL, CentOS RHEL, Amazon Linux, Oracle Linux, and other distributions using the yum package manager
```
sudo yum localinstall nginx-agent-<agent-version>.rpm
```
RHEL and other distributions using the rpm package manager
```
sudo rpm -i nginx-agent-<agent-version>.rpm
```

Alpine Linux

sudo apk add nginx-agent-<agent-version>.apk

FreeBSD

sudo pkg add nginx-agent-<agent-version>.pkg

Start and Enable Start on Boot

To start the NGINX Agent on systemd systems, run the following command:

sudo systemctl start nginx-agent

To enable the NGINX Agent to start on boot, run the following command:

sudo systemctl enable nginx-agent

Logs

NGINX Agent uses formatted log files to collect metrics. Expanding log formats and instance counts will also increase the size of the NGINX Agent log files. We recommend adding a separate partition for /var/log/nginx-agent.

Important:
Without log rotation or storage on a separate partition, log files could use up all the free drive space and cause your system to become unresponsive to certain services.