Remove an OTel Collector from Fleet

Remove an OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector from the Fleet Agents list when you no longer want Fleet to track it.

You'll need:

  • The Agents privilege set to All. Refer to Fleet privileges.
  • An active collector in the Agents list. The remove action is unavailable for inactive collectors.

  1. In Kibana, enter Fleet in the global search field, then select Fleet / Agents.

  2. To remove a single collector, select Remove collector from its Actions menu, then confirm.

    To remove several collectors at once, select them in the Agents list, then choose Remove N collectors from the bulk actions menu, where N is the number of selected collectors, and confirm.

Removing a collector removes it from the Agents list only. It doesn't stop the collector process, and its enrollment credentials stay valid, so a collector that's still running can reconnect and reappear in the list.

To stop a collector from reporting to Fleet, remove the opamp extension from its configuration and restart it.