From 315c1bff8ced0c814d56f65f4e0d75a98a41135f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Craig Peterson <192540+captncraig@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:46:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] use binary as fallback deploy mode

---
 internal/useragent/useragent.go      | 4 ++--
 internal/useragent/useragent_test.go | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/internal/useragent/useragent.go b/internal/useragent/useragent.go
index 6627527647f3..bb6043f97aa3 100644
--- a/internal/useragent/useragent.go
+++ b/internal/useragent/useragent.go
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ func getRunMode() string {
 
 func getDeployMode() string {
 	op := os.Getenv(deployModeEnv)
-	// only return known modes
+	// only return known modes. Use "binary" as a default catch-all.
 	switch op {
 	case "operator", "helm", "docker", "deb", "rpm", "brew":
 		return op
 	}
-	return ""
+	return "binary"
 }
diff --git a/internal/useragent/useragent_test.go b/internal/useragent/useragent_test.go
index f0706f8a5ebc..abaf0b80d192 100644
--- a/internal/useragent/useragent_test.go
+++ b/internal/useragent/useragent_test.go
@@ -19,26 +19,26 @@ func TestUserAgent(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			Name:     "basic",
 			Mode:     "",
-			Expected: "GrafanaAgent/v1.2.3 (static; linux)",
+			Expected: "GrafanaAgent/v1.2.3 (static; linux; binary)",
 			GOOS:     "linux",
 		},
 		{
 			Name:     "flow",
 			Mode:     "flow",
-			Expected: "GrafanaAgent/v1.2.3 (flow; windows)",
+			Expected: "GrafanaAgent/v1.2.3 (flow; windows; binary)",
 			GOOS:     "windows",
 		},
 		{
 			Name:     "static",
 			Mode:     "static",
-			Expected: "GrafanaAgent/v1.2.3 (static; darwin)",
+			Expected: "GrafanaAgent/v1.2.3 (static; darwin; binary)",
 			GOOS:     "darwin",
 		},
 		{
 			Name: "unknown",
 			Mode: "blahlahblah",
 			// unknown mode, should not happen. But we will substitute 'unknown' to avoid allowing arbitrary cardinality.
-			Expected: "GrafanaAgent/v1.2.3 (unknown; freebsd)",
+			Expected: "GrafanaAgent/v1.2.3 (unknown; freebsd; binary)",
 			GOOS:     "freebsd",
 		},
 		{