# Agent data gathering behaviour

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/agent-data-gathering-behaviour/299754>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat, metricbeat, winlogbeat\
**Created:** [March 15, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/agent-data-gathering-behaviour/299754 "2022-03-15T15:09:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sergey\_K](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sergey_k/32/98588_2.png) [@Sergey\_K](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sergey_K)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/agent-data-gathering-behaviour/299754/1 "2022-03-15T15:09:36Z")

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Good Afternoon,  
Unfortunately couldn't find this information in other sources.  
Could you please update me on how do the agents (in common) treat collected data while ELK stack is unavailable?  
Do they drop the data or cash it until ELK stack is back to normal state ?

Thanks and stay safe.  
Sergey

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/agent-data-gathering-behaviour/299754/2 "2022-04-12T17:09:43Z")

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