Agent vs Agentless Monitoring: Why We Chose Agentless | UpGuard

UpGuard announces a move from a JRuby agent to an agentless Go-based connection manager, citing lower maintenance costs, significantly improved performance and memory efficiency, and easier on-premise deployments; it argues that for configuration monitoring, API-based agentless access is sufficient, addresses concerns around sampling and platform support, and positions the new architecture as a faster, lighter, broadly compatible solution.