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## On-host integrations [#on-host]

Our **on-host integrations** are basically our infrastructure service integrations that aren't [cloud platform integrations](#cloud). With the exception of Kubernetes, which can be enabled in a few ways, our on-host integrations work in concert with our [infrastructure agent](/docs/infrastructure/install-infrastructure-agent/get-started/install-infrastructure-agent) to report data.
Our **on-host integrations** are basically our infrastructure service integrations that aren't [cloud platform integrations](#cloud). With the exception of [Kubernetes](/docs/kubernetes-pixie/kubernetes-integration/installation/kubernetes-integration-install-configure), which can be enabled in a few ways, our on-host integrations work in concert with our [infrastructure agent](/docs/infrastructure/install-infrastructure-agent/get-started/install-infrastructure-agent) to report data.

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We have a wide range of infrastructure monitoring solutions. Here's a summary:

* Our [infrastructure agent](/docs/infrastructure/install-infrastructure-agent/get-started/install-infrastructure-agent) for Linux, Windows, and MacOS operating systems, and the [integrations](/docs/infrastructure/infrastructure-integrations/get-started/introduction-infrastructure-integrations/#on-host-integrations) it comes bundled with (MySQL, NGINX, Cassandra, Kafka, to name a few)
* Our [infrastructure agent](/docs/infrastructure/install-infrastructure-agent/get-started/install-infrastructure-agent) for Linux, Windows, and MacOS operating systems
* Our [Kubernetes](/docs/kubernetes-pixie/kubernetes-integration/installation/kubernetes-integration-install-configure) and [Pixie](/docs/kubernetes-pixie/auto-telemetry-pixie/get-started-auto-telemetry-pixie) integrations.
* Our [cloud integrations](/docs/infrastructure/infrastructure-integrations/get-started/introduction-infrastructure-integrations/#cloud-integrations) for Amazon, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
* Our [Prometheus integrations](/docs/infrastructure/prometheus-integrations/get-started/send-prometheus-metric-data-new-relic).
* Our [on-host integrations](/docs/infrastructure/infrastructure-integrations/get-started/introduction-infrastructure-integrations/#on-host-integrations) for services like MySQL, NGINX, Cassandra, and Kafka (to name a few). Most of the on-host integrations are installed with the infrastructure agent and work in concert with it to send data.


## Quick start: Use our guided install [#quick]

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## Install the infrastructure agent [#install]

Our open source infrastructure agent is a [lightweight](/docs/infrastructure/new-relic-infrastructure/getting-started/agent-performance-overhead) executable file that works in the background to collect data from your operating system. The infrastructure agent comes bundled with our on-host integrations, which report data from a wide variety of infrastructure services like MySQL, Cassandra, NGINX, and many more.
Our open source infrastructure agent is a [lightweight](/docs/infrastructure/new-relic-infrastructure/getting-started/agent-performance-overhead) executable file that works in the background to collect data from your operating system.

If you don't want to use our [guided install](#quick), the simplest way to install the infrastructure agent is [with a package manager](/docs/infrastructure/install-configure-manage-infrastructure/linux-installation/install-infrastructure-linux-using-package-manager) (Linux) or with the [MSI installer](/docs/infrastructure/install-configure-manage-infrastructure/windows-installation/install-infrastructure-windows-server-using-msi-installer) (Windows). You can also use our installation assistants:

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New Relic's [infrastructure agent](/docs/infrastructure/install-infrastructure-agent/get-started/install-infrastructure-agent) runs on your hosts, providing comprehensive data, especially when it runs with administrator privileges. What follows is an overview of our infrastructure agent's security and some recommendations.
New Relic's [infrastructure agent](/docs/infrastructure/install-infrastructure-agent/get-started/install-infrastructure-agent) runs on your hosts and provides comprehensive data, especially when running with administrator privileges. What follows is an overview of our infrastructure agent's security and some recommendations.

## Secure agent communication [#communication]

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Our infrastructure agent and our on-host integrations have traditionally reported as sample data: [metrics as metadata attached to events](/docs/data-apis/understand-data/new-relic-data-types/#metric-event-attributes). We have made these metrics also available as [dimensional metrics](/docs/data-apis/understand-data/new-relic-data-types/#dimensional-metrics), which is a better format for metric-type data in allowing for more in-depth analysis.
In the past, our infrastructure agent and on-host integrations have reported [metrics as attributes attached to events](/docs/data-apis/understand-data/new-relic-data-types/#metric-event-attributes), also known as "sample data." We have now made these metrics also available as [dimensional metrics](/docs/data-apis/understand-data/new-relic-data-types/#dimensional-metrics), a data format that allows for improved analysis and aggregation over time.

The following table presents the equivalent dimensional metric names for our infrastructure agent and for our on-host integrations. For tips on how to query dimensional metrics, see [Query dimensional metrics](/docs/data-apis/understand-data/metric-data/query-metric-data-type).

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