Automating NewRelic Agent Updates in Windows Environments
The Challenge of Agent Updates Keeping monitoring agents up-to-date is very important for maintaining effective observability in your systems. However, manual updates can be time-consuming and often get overlooked. This post demonstrates a very simple way of how to automate NewRelic agent updates in a Windows environment. Infrastructure Agent Update Script Create a PowerShell script to update the NewRelic Infrastructure agent: Stop-Service -Name “newrelic-infra” (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile( “https://download.newrelic.com/infrastructure_agent/windows/newrelic-infra.msi", “$env:TEMP\newrelic-infra.msi” ) msiexec.exe /qn /i “$env:TEMP\newrelic-infra.msi” Start-Service -Name “newrelic-infra” ...