Often we get the question, “What is the impact of the Tanium agent on the endpoint?” Today we’re going to unpack that answer as part of a series on optimizing the Tanium agent for your environment. In this series we’re going to explore expectations for endpoint agent load, look at agent tuning, talk about proper anti-virus exclusions, what to consider for virtual infrastructure, and more. Today we’re going to focus on the baseline load of the Tanium agent on your endpoints: disk, memory, CPU, network. Also pick up bonus Windows performance tips from an industry veteran in this behind-the-scenes interview with a Tanium Principal Escalation Engineer.

• Understand memory, CPU, disk, and network performance of the agent
• Consolidate agents with Tanium to free up end user resources
• Tanium Client 7.6 improves performance
• Use Performance and Tanium Client Management to see agent health
• Use the core content to collect ETL files for support

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RESOURCES
All videos in this series
Agent Impact
https://youtu.be/1YeM-bWKrCE
Exclusions
https://youtu.be/ttGNqxy1g5s
Virtualized Endpoints
https://youtu.be/VmbithnovgY

View Live and Historical Resource Consumption Data to Quickly Troubleshoot Endpoint Performance Issues
https://help.tanium.com/bundle/z-kb-articles-salesforce/page/kA00e000000TbihCAC.html

Enterprise Level Application and Process Metric Analysis with Tanium Performance
https://help.tanium.com/bundle/z-kb-articles-salesforce/page/kA07V000000TcEsSAK.html

Tuning Tanium: Optimizing Tanium Client Performance
https://help.tanium.com/bundle/z-kb-articles-salesforce/page/kA07V000000c4icSAA.html

Producing Microsoft Windows ETLs for Improved Endpoint Analysis with Tanium's Default Content
https://help.tanium.com/bundle/z-kb-articles-salesforce/page/kA07V000000H8kUSAS.html

Procmon: How to Troubleshoot Performance Issues on Windows Endpoints by Leveraging Available Tools and Tanium Sensors
https://community.tanium.com/s/article/How-to-Troubleshoot-Performance-Issues-on-Windows-Endpoints-by-Leveraging-Available-Tools-and-Tanium-Sensors

Tanium Tech Talk: Performance module
https://www.youtube.com/watch

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

00:58 Meet Jeff

02:43 Endpoint agents today

06:25 Agent impact: Memory

12:00 Agent impact: CPU

14:52 Agent impact: Disk

17:22 Editorial: endpoint cost

19:50 Platform 7.6 agent improvements

22:09 Agent impact: Network

25:55 Tuning agent performance

28:07 Mac & Linux

30:15 Monitoring agent performance

30:43 Windows ETL collection content

33:12 Give us your feedback

33:34 Wrap up