# Activate "Fleet" and deploy agents - is a Fleet Server necessary?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activate-fleet-and-deploy-agents-is-a-fleet-server-necessary/380672
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 1, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activate-fleet-and-deploy-agents-is-a-fleet-server-necessary/380672 "2025-08-01T14:52:47Z")
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### Author: ![Elasticisti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/51bf81/32.png) [@Elasticisti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Elasticisti)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activate-fleet-and-deploy-agents-is-a-fleet-server-necessary/380672/1 "2025-08-01T14:52:47Z")

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Hi there,

I am new to ELK.

It runs now in a small VM in our Testnetwork. Just for fun, I would like to ingest some jira logs to ELK

as I see I should use "Fleet" to deploy the agents.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/7/271c4b353602b5a40f88f0440212505bec629797.png)

As I have only one testnode, I cannot set a 2nd node as fleet server.  
Is the assessment correct that only stand alone agents can be used in my case?

Thank you for a short confirmation.

EI

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### Author: ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/activate-fleet-and-deploy-agents-is-a-fleet-server-necessary/380672/2 "2025-08-01T21:16:59Z")

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don't know about first question.

second put all in one index. your small vm will not able to handle that many index