About agents

KUMA agents are services that are used to forward raw events from servers and workstations to KUMA destinations.

Types of agents:

wmi agents are used to receive data from remote Windows devices using Windows Management Instrumentation. They are installed to Windows assets.
wec agents are used to receive Windows logs from a local device using Windows Event Collector. They are installed to Windows assets.
tcp agents are used to receive data over the TCP protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
udp agents are used to receive data over the UDP protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
nats-jetstream—used for NATS communications. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
kafka agents are used for Kafka communications. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
http agents are used for communication over the HTTP protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
file agents are used to get data from a file. They are installed to Linux assets.
ftp agents are used to receive data over the File Transfer Protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
nfs agents are used to receive data over the Network File System protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
snmp agents are used to receive data over the Simple Network Management Protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
diode agents are used together with data diodes to receive events from isolated network segments. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.