# Best Practices for Accounts Running Beats Services

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practices-for-accounts-running-beats-services/219448>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [February 14, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practices-for-accounts-running-beats-services/219448 "2020-02-14T21:11:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![illopssec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@illopssec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/illopssec)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practices-for-accounts-running-beats-services/219448/1 "2020-02-14T21:11:57Z")

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Hello all,

Speaking strictly for the various Beats that are compatible with Windows, I was wondering what the best practices are for accounts running the various Beats services? For instance, has anyone tried doing a large deployment using GMSAs? In case you're unfamiliar - [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/group-managed-service-accounts/group-managed-service-accounts-overview](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/group-managed-service-accounts/group-managed-service-accounts-overview)

Any insight/advice is appreciated.

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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:** [March 13, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practices-for-accounts-running-beats-services/219448/2 "2020-03-13T23:12:02Z")

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