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Drata Agent Version 3.6.1 overview
Drata Agent Version 3.6.1 overview

Drata Agent version 3.6.1 includes enhancements, security updates, data collection updates.

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⚠️ Note: Previous versions of Drata Agent will no longer be supported. To minimize interruption for device compliance monitoring, you must update the Drata Agent to version 3.6.1 before December 19, 2024. Previous versions of the Drata Agent after December 19th will stop monitoring for device compliance and will require users to upgrade and re-register the Drata Agent. Learn more about Drata Agent 3.6.1, how to verify your current Drata Agent version, and how to update your Drata Agent version to 3.6.1.

Drata Agent version 3.6.1 includes enhancements, security updates, data collection updates. Learn about the latest changes that the latest Drata Agent, version 3.6.1, will offer.

  • Personal Exclusions enhancements: Personnel with an active exclusion for a specific device check will not have that compliance check show up on the Drata Agent.

  • Security updates: Drata Agent’s scheduler library is updated, but there are no overall schedule changes. Drata Agent’s osquery has also been updated to 5.10.2.

  • Data collection updates: Updates of what data is collected.

    • Additional information will be collected regarding how screen lock settings are configured related to display, power, and policy settings, which may cause screen lock check to fail if configuration does not match the Auto-Lock your Workstation with Screensaver help article.

    • Additional serial number information will be collected if available.

    • DataDog error logging with additional data. Information is automatically collected and sent to DataDog on error, or when initiated by the user menu.

    • Computer names and host names to enhance asset naming control.

    • Usage and error data is no longer sent to Sentry.

Verify the version of Drata Agent running on a device

  1. Navigate to the Personnel page.

  2. Select Download and then from the dropdown menu, select Compliance overview. You will be downloading a CSV file that contains information about the versions that each device is on.

  3. In the downloaded CSV file, view the data under the columns Device source and Device version.

    • The Device source will list Agent if a device’s compliance is being monitored via the Drata Agent

    • The Device version will list the version of the Agent running on that device.

Note: If you are not using or no longer intend to use the Drata Agent to monitor device compliance, we suggest that the Drata Agent be uninstalled from those devices.

Update the Drata Agent to the latest version

  1. Download the appropriate Drata Agent for your platform.

  2. Run the downloaded file and install the application. For detailed installation instructions, please reference the corresponding help article:

Notes about automatic updates:

For Mac and Windows devices, automatic updates are supported on most versions unless blocked by firewall, permissions, or system errors. These devices may require additional user or admin intervention by downloading and installing the newest version from the links provided previously.

For Ubuntu, the latest version of the Drata Agent will not provide automatic updates.

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