diff --git a/cmd/nri-prometheus/config.go b/cmd/nri-prometheus/config.go
index abc84bd1..a906d84d 100644
--- a/cmd/nri-prometheus/config.go
+++ b/cmd/nri-prometheus/config.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"path/filepath"
 	"reflect"
 	"regexp"
+	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -22,6 +23,11 @@ type ArgumentList struct {
 	Configfile string `default:"" help:"Deprecated. --config_path takes precedence if both are set"`
 }
 
+const (
+	windowsDefinitionPath = "C:\\Program Files\\New Relic\\newrelic-infra\\definition-files"
+	linuxDefinitionPath   = "/etc/newrelic-infra/definition-files"
+)
+
 func loadConfig() (*scraper.Config, error) {
 
 	c := ArgumentList{}
@@ -61,6 +67,23 @@ func loadConfig() (*scraper.Config, error) {
 		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "could not parse configuration file")
 	}
 
+	// Set emitter default according to standalone mode.
+	if len(scraperCfg.Emitters) == 0 {
+		if scraperCfg.Standalone {
+			scraperCfg.Emitters = append(scraperCfg.Emitters, "telemetry")
+		} else {
+			scraperCfg.Emitters = append(scraperCfg.Emitters, "infra-sdk")
+		}
+	}
+
+	if scraperCfg.DefinitionFilesPath == "" {
+		if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
+			scraperCfg.DefinitionFilesPath = windowsDefinitionPath
+		} else {
+			scraperCfg.DefinitionFilesPath = linuxDefinitionPath
+		}
+	}
+
 	if scraperCfg.MetricAPIURL == "" {
 		scraperCfg.MetricAPIURL = determineMetricAPIURL(string(scraperCfg.LicenseKey))
 	}
@@ -72,7 +95,6 @@ func loadConfig() (*scraper.Config, error) {
 func setViperDefaults(viper *viper.Viper) {
 	viper.SetDefault("debug", false)
 	viper.SetDefault("verbose", false)
-	viper.SetDefault("emitters", []string{"telemetry"})
 	viper.SetDefault("scrape_enabled_label", "prometheus.io/scrape")
 	viper.SetDefault("require_scrape_enabled_label_for_nodes", true)
 	viper.SetDefault("scrape_timeout", 5*time.Second)
diff --git a/internal/cmd/scraper/scraper.go b/internal/cmd/scraper/scraper.go
index 176abd12..4426b537 100644
--- a/internal/cmd/scraper/scraper.go
+++ b/internal/cmd/scraper/scraper.go
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ func Run(cfg *Config) error {
 		case "infra-sdk":
 			specs, err := integration.LoadSpecFiles(cfg.DefinitionFilesPath)
 			if err != nil {
-				return err
+				logrus.Errorf("error loading definition files: %s", err)
 			}
 			emitter := integration.NewInfraSdkEmitter(specs)
 			emitters = append(emitters, emitter)
diff --git a/internal/integration/infra_sdk_emitter.go b/internal/integration/infra_sdk_emitter.go
index eaa8c676..0637221b 100644
--- a/internal/integration/infra_sdk_emitter.go
+++ b/internal/integration/infra_sdk_emitter.go
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ func (e *InfraSdkEmitter) Emit(metrics []Metric) error {
 			logrus.WithError(err).Errorf("failed to create metric from '%s'", me.name)
 		}
 	}
+	logrus.Debugf("%d metrics processed", len(metrics))
+	logrus.Debugf("%d metrics not found in definition file and added to the Host Entity", len(i.HostEntity.Metrics))
 
 	return i.Publish()
 }
@@ -127,7 +129,6 @@ func (e *InfraSdkEmitter) addMetricToEntity(i *sdk.Integration, metric Metric, m
 	entityProps, err := e.definitions.getEntity(metric)
 	// if we can't find an entity for the metric, add it to the "host" entity
 	if err != nil {
-		logrus.WithError(err).Debugf("failed to map metric to entity. using 'host' entity")
 		i.HostEntity.AddMetric(m)
 		return nil
 	}