install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install newrelic-infra-agent

local Homebrew formula metadata

Windows

Chocolateyverified · 92%

choco install newrelic-infra

Chocolatey community package catalog · newrelic-infra · source: community.chocolatey.org

overview

Package summary

New Relic infrastructure agent

Project links

Commands and aliases

newrelic-infra
newrelic-infra-ctl
newrelic-infra-service

history

Project history and usage

New Relic Infrastructure Agent is the host-side collector for New Relic's infrastructure monitoring product. It collects host inventory and metrics and sends them to the New Relic platform, tying bare metal, virtual machines, cloud hosts, Docker/container runtimes, and operating-system state into New Relic's observability data model.

Project history

New Relic announced New Relic Infrastructure on November 7, 2016, with general availability scheduled for November 16, 2016. The launch pitch centered on dynamic infrastructure: cloud instances, Docker containers, changing host configuration, and the need to correlate configuration changes with health metrics. The open source agent repository is the implementation that makes that product useful on machines.

Adoption history

Adoption follows New Relic's commercial footprint more than a hobbyist CLI pattern. The agent is packaged for multiple operating systems and is documented for manual installs, containers, and larger fleet-management approaches. Companion configuration-management projects such as New Relic's Chef and Puppet tooling exist because the usual user is operating a fleet, not installing a one-off desktop utility.

Homebrew is a secondary distribution channel for this package, mostly useful for macOS hosts, test machines, and developers who want a bottled agent. Homebrew analytics reported 211 installs in 30 days, 560 in 90 days, and 2,576 in 365 days for the formula when queried on July 1, 2026.

How it is used

Package nerds install it when they need a real New Relic host entity: set a New Relic license key/profile configuration, run the service, and let the agent report CPU, memory, disk, process, inventory, container, and integration data. On developer machines it is also useful for checking agent behavior, config-file paths, and packaging changes before rolling the same version across Linux or Windows fleets.

The operational habit is to keep it updated: New Relic's release notes repeatedly tell users to upgrade regularly, and the agent has a fast cadence of dependency, integration, Fluent Bit/logging, security, and platform-support changes.

Why package nerds care

This is not a general-purpose monitoring daemon so much as a packaged endpoint for a vendor ecosystem. Its significance in av.db is that secrets and configuration are concentrated in predictable files such as newrelic-infra.yml, and the installed executables are service/control-plane tools rather than ad hoc user commands.

Timeline

2016-11-07: New Relic announced New Relic Infrastructure.
2016-11-16: New Relic Infrastructure general availability was scheduled at launch.
2026-07-01: Homebrew formula version observed as 1.77.1, with 2,576 formula installs over the preceding 365-day analytics window.

Related projects

newrelic/infrastructure-agent-chef
newrelic/infrastructure-agent-puppet
newrelic/nri-docker
New Relic Infrastructure Monitoring

Sources

security posture

Risk level: orange

formula declares a Homebrew service. infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

Risk classifier

orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure

Why

formula declares a Homebrew service
infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

Signals

metadata:service
text:infrastructure

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Formula metadata declares a service or daemon block.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Linux: /etc/newrelic-infra.yml
macOS: /usr/local/etc/newrelic-infra.yml/opt/homebrew/etc/newrelic-infra.yml

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Linux: /etc/newrelic-infra.yml
macOS: /usr/local/etc/newrelic-infra.yml/opt/homebrew/etc/newrelic-infra.yml

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure
`newrelic-infra`	cli	global executable
`newrelic-infra-ctl`	cli	global executable
`newrelic-infra-service`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version1.77.1

manager updated2026-06-30

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent

infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agentnone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:newrelic-infra-agent
Version	1.77.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/newrelic-infra-agent
Homepage	https://github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent
Repository	https://github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent
Upstream docs	https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/infrastructure/install-infrastructure-agent
License	Apache-2.0
Source archive	https://github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent.git
Last updated	2026-06-30T12:38:02Z
Pulse	updated
Build dependencies	go
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	newrelic-infra-agent
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Chocolatey92%

newrelic-infra

choco install newrelic-infra

installed executable or alias match
Matched by: Newrelic Infra

Chocolatey community package catalog · community.chocolatey.org · Chocolatey community package catalog: newrelic-infra from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','naps2'

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/newrelic-infra-agent.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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