Prerequisites & Requirements#

Supported Operating Systems#

The WatchGrid Go Agent is designed to run efficiently on modern Linux distributions:

  • Ubuntu Linux (18.04 LTS or newer)

  • Debian GNU/Linux (10 or newer)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS / Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux (8 or newer)

  • Fedora Linux

  • Alpine Linux

Supported Architectures#

The agent binary is compiled for multiple hardware architectures:

  • amd64 (x86_64)

  • arm64 (AArch64)

System Requirements#

  • Init System: systemd (recommended for service management)

  • Permissions: Root / sudo privileges for initial script installation and systemd service creation

  • Network: Outbound HTTPS/HTTP access to https://watchgrid.de / https://wgri.de