Operating System
NOTE
All Insight Agent installations require administrator privileges for the target system. The Insight Agent currently only supports x86 platforms running Intel or AMD chipsets.
The Insight Agent is supported on the following operating systems:
Windows
The Insight Agent is supported on desktop and server versions of the Windows Operating System while those versions are in mainstream or extended support from Microsoft. For more information on Microsoft Lifecycle policies, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/general-lifecycle.
Additional Windows Requirements
If you are installing the Insight Agent on Windows assets for use with InsightIDR or InsightOps, make sure that the event log is enabled on your assets. You can refer to our InsightIDR event sources documentation for more information.
Mac
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
- macOS 11.0 Big Sur (Intel devices only)
Linux
We support all versions of Linux associated with the following distributions as long as they are in mainstream or long-term support by their vendors.
- Debian
- CentOS
- Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Ubuntu
- Fedora
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
- openSUSE LEAP
- Amazon Linux 1
- Amazon Linux 2
Unsupported Operating Systems
Click to view the list of Operating Systems that have been unsupported by their vendors for more than a year and are no longer supported by the Insight Agent:
| Operating System | Version | EOL date by Vendor |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Windows XP | April 8, 2014 |
| Windows Vista | April 11, 2017 | |
| Windows 8 | January 12, 2016 | |
| Mac | OS X 10.11 | September 2018 |
| Linux | Debian 7 (Wheezy) | May 31, 2018 |
| CentOS 3 | October 31, 2010 | |
| CentOS 4 | February 29, 2012 | |
| CentOS 5 | March 31, 2017 | |
| Ubuntu 11.04 | October 28, 2012 | |
| Ubuntu 11.1 | May 9, 2013 | |
| Ubuntu 12.04 LTS | April 2019 | |
| Ubuntu 12.1 | May 16, 2014 | |
| Ubuntu 13.04 | January 27, 2014 | |
| Ubuntu 13.1 | July 17, 2014 | |
| Ubuntu 14.1 | July 23, 2015 | |
| Ubuntu 15.04 | February 4, 2016 | |
| Ubuntu 15.1 | July 28, 2016 | |
| Ubuntu 16.1 | July 20, 2017 | |
| Ubuntu 17.04 | January 13, 2018 | |
| Ubuntu 17.1 | July 19, 2018 | |
| Fedora 17 | July 30, 2013 | |
| Fedora 18 | January 14, 2014 | |
| Fedora 19 | January 6, 2015 | |
| Fedora 20 | June 23, 2015 | |
| Fedora 21 | December 1, 2015 | |
| Fedora 22 | July 19, 2016 | |
| Fedora 23 | December 20, 2016 | |
| Fedora 24 | August 8, 2017 | |
| Fedora 25 | December 12, 2017 | |
| Fedora 26 | May 29, 2018 | |
| Fedora 27 | November 30, 2018 | |
| Fedora 28 | May 28, 2019 | |
| Fedora 29 | November 26, 2019 | |
| SUSE Linux 11.1 | August 30, 2015 | |
| SUSE Linux 11.2 | January 30, 2017 | |
| SUSE Linux 11.3 | January 30, 2019 | |
| OpenSUSE leap 42.1 | May 17, 2017 | |
| OpenSUSE leap 42.2 | January 26, 2018 | |
| OpenSUSE leap 42.3 | June 30, 2019 |
Click to view the list of Operating Systems that have entered their End of Life process and will not be supported by the Insight Agent once their End of Life date is reached:
NOTE
This list is continuously updated to reflect Operating Systems that have entered into the End of Life process by Rapid7.
| Operating System Version | EOL date by Vendor | EOL announcement date by Rapid7 | Official EOL by Rapid7 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OS X 10.12 | October 2019 | August 13, 2020 | August 13, 2021 |
| Debian 8 | June 2020 | August 13, 2020 | August 13, 2021 |
| Ubuntu 18.1 | July 18, 2019 | August 13, 2020 | August 13, 2021 |
| Ubuntu 19.04 | January 23, 2020 | August 13, 2020 | August 13, 2021 |
| OpenSUSE 15.0 | December 3, 2019 | August 13, 2020 | August 13, 2021 |
| Fedora 30 | May 26, 2020 | August 19, 2020 | August 19, 2021 |
| Windows Server 2003 | July 14, 2014 | December 2, 2019 | December 2, 2020 |
| Windows 7 | January 14, 2020 | August 13, 2020 | August 13, 2021 |
| Windows Server 2008 | January 14, 2020 | August 13, 2020 | August 13, 2021 |
Additional Linux Requirements
If you are installing the Insight Agent on Linux assets for use with InsightIDR, note that the auditd service must be present on your assets, but disabled.
Why disable auditd?
InsightIDR must have exclusive use of the auditd service in order to successfully run the agent.job.linux.ui_realtime job. To ensure this job runs properly, auditd needs to be installed, but also disabled.
If your organization requires that auditd be enabled at all times, see the auditd Compatibility Mode for Linux Assets Help page for instructions on how to ensure that both the agent and auditd services can run together.