Stop Elastic Agentedit
To stop Elastic Agent and its related executables, stop the Elastic Agent process. Use the commands that work for your system.
The DEB package includes a service unit for Linux systems with systemd. On these systems, you can manage Elastic Agent by using the usual systemd commands.
Use systemctl to stop the agent:
systemctl stop elastic-agent
Otherwise, use:
sudo service elastic-agent stop
Elastic Agent will restart automatically if the system is rebooted.
The RPM package includes a service unit for Linux systems with systemd. On these systems, you can manage Elastic Agent by using the usual systemd commands.
Use systemctl to stop the agent:
systemctl stop elastic-agent
Otherwise, use:
sudo service elastic-agent stop
Elastic Agent will restart automatically if the system is rebooted.
Get the process ID (PID) of the elastic-agent process:
ps | grep elastic-agent
Then kill the process, replacing the PID in this example with the PID from the grep command:
kill -9 90682
Elastic Agent will NOT restart automatically if the system is rebooted.
Get the process ID (PID) of the elastic-agent process:
ps | grep elastic-agent
Then kill the process, replacing the PID in this example with the PID from the grep command:
kill -9 90682
Elastic Agent will NOT restart automatically if the system is rebooted.
If you installed Elastic Agent as a service, stop the service.
Stop-Service elastic-agent
If necessary, use Task Manager on Windows to stop Elastic Agent. This will kill the
elastic-agent process and any sub-processes it created (such as Beats).
Elastic Agent will restart automatically if the system is rebooted.