Install and manage agents for EC2 instances

Follow the steps in this section to install Network Flow Monitor agents for workloads on Amazon EC2 instances. You can install agents by using SSM or by downloading and installing prebuilt packages for the Network Flow Monitor agent by using the command line.

Regardless of the method that you use to install agents on EC2 instances, you must configure permissions for the agents to enable them to send performance metrics to the Network Flow Monitor backend.