- Fleet and Elastic Agent Guide: other versions:
- Fleet and Elastic Agent overview
- Beats and Elastic Agent capabilities
- Quick starts
- Manage Elastic Agent integrations
- Add an Elastic Agent integration to a policy
- View Elastic Agent integration policies
- Edit or delete an Elastic Agent integration policy
- Install and uninstall Elastic Agent integration assets
- View Elastic Agent integration assets
- Upgrade an Elastic Agent integration
- Uninstall an Elastic Agent integration
- Air-gapped environments
- Install Elastic Agents
- Centrally manage Elastic Agents in Fleet
- Elastic Agent standalone configuration
- Elastic Agent command reference
- Troubleshoot
- Release notes
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.28
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.27
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.26
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.25
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.24
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.23
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.22
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.21
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.20
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.19
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.18
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.17
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.16
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.15
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.14
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.13
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.12
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.11
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.10
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.9
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.8
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.7
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.6
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.5
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.4
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.3
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.2
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.1
- Fleet and Elastic Agent 7.17.0
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Installation layout
editInstallation layout
editElastic Agent files are installed in the following locations. You cannot override these installation paths because they are required for upgrades.
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/Library/Elastic/Agent/* - Elastic Agent program files
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/Library/Elastic/Agent/elastic-agent.yml - Main Elastic Agent configuration
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/Library/Elastic/Agent/fleet.yml - Main Elastic Agent Fleet configuration
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/Library/Elastic/Agent/data/elastic-agent-*/logs/elastic-agent-json.log - Log files for Elastic Agent[1]
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/Library/Elastic/Agent/data/elastic-agent-*/logs/default/*-json.log - Log files for Beats shippers
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/usr/bin/elastic-agent - Shell wrapper installed into PATH
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/opt/Elastic/Agent/* - Elastic Agent program files
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/opt/Elastic/Agent/elastic-agent.yml - Main Elastic Agent configuration
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/opt/Elastic/Agent/fleet.yml - Main Elastic Agent Fleet configuration
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/opt/Elastic/Agent/data/elastic-agent-*/logs/elastic-agent-json.log - Log files for Elastic Agent[1]
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/opt/Elastic/Agent/data/elastic-agent-*/logs/default/*-json.log - Log files for Beats shippers
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/usr/bin/elastic-agent - Shell wrapper installed into PATH
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C:\Program Files\Elastic\Agent* - Elastic Agent program files
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C:\Program Files\Elastic\Agent\elastic-agent.yml - Main Elastic Agent configuration
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C:\Program Files\Elastic\Agent\fleet.yml - Main Elastic Agent Fleet configuration
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C:\Program Files\Elastic\Agent\data\elastic-agent-*\logs\elastic-agent-json.log - Log files for Elastic Agent[1]
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C:\Program Files\Elastic\Agent\data\elastic-agent-*\logs\default\*-json.log* - Log files for Beats shippers
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/usr/share/elastic-agent/* - Elastic Agent program files
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/etc/elastic-agent/elastic-agent.yml - Main Elastic Agent configuration
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/etc/elastic-agent/fleet.yml - Main Elastic Agent Fleet configuration
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/var/lib/elastic-agent/data/elastic-agent-*/logs/elastic-agent-json.log - Log files for Elastic Agent[1]
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/var/lib/elastic-agent/data/elastic-agent-*/logs/default/*-json.log* - Log files for Beats shippers
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/usr/bin/elastic-agent - Shell wrapper installed into PATH
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/usr/share/elastic-agent/* - Elastic Agent program files
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/etc/elastic-agent/elastic-agent.yml - Main Elastic Agent configuration
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/etc/elastic-agent/fleet.yml - Main Elastic Agent Fleet configuration
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/var/lib/elastic-agent/data/elastic-agent-*/logs/elastic-agent-json.log - Log files for Elastic Agent[1]
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/var/lib/elastic-agent/data/elastic-agent-*/logs/default/*-json.log* - Log files for Beats shippers
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/usr/bin/elastic-agent - Shell wrapper installed into PATH
[1] Log file names end with a number that includes a date:
elastic-agent-json.log-20220503173131, elastic-agent-json.log-20220503173135, and so on as new files are created during rotation.
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