# NGINX Agent

Type of document: Landing page
Product: NGINX Agent

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## About

NGINX Agent is a companion daemon for your NGINX Open Source or NGINX Plus instance. It enables remote management of NGINX
configurations, collection and reporting of real-time NGINX performance and operating system metrics, and notifications of NGINX events.

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### [About](about/)

    Learn everything you need to know about NGINX Agent
  

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### [Getting started](installation-upgrade/getting-started/)

    Install NGINX Agent and run a mock control plane
  

  
### [Upgrade](installation-upgrade/upgrade/)

  

  
### [Configuration](configuration/)

  

  
### [Support](support/)