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Elastic Agents

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Elastic Agents

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Elastic Agent is a single, unified agent that you deploy to hosts or containers to collect data and send it to the Elastic Stack. Behind the scenes, Elastic Agent runs the Beats shippers or Elastic Endpoint required for your configuration.

To learn how to add Elastic Agents to Fleet, see Install Fleet-managed Elastic Agents.

To manage your Elastic Agents, go to Management > Fleet > Agents in Kibana. On the Agents tab, you can perform the following actions:

User action Result

Unenroll Elastic Agents

Unenroll Elastic Agents from Fleet.

Set unenrollment timeout

Set enrollment timeout to force unenroll inactive Elastic Agents.

Upgrade Elastic Agents

Upgrade Elastic Agents to the latest version.

View Elastic Agent status

View the status of Fleet-managed Elastic Agents.

View Elastic Agent logs

View Elastic Agent logs and set the logging level.
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