# Deployment of a Fleet-Server

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deployment-of-a-fleet-server/290750>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** fleet\
**Created:** [December 2, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deployment-of-a-fleet-server/290750 "2021-12-02T10:32:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alphonse\_Kambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f475e1/32.png) [@Alphonse\_Kambo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alphonse_Kambo)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deployment-of-a-fleet-server/290750/1 "2021-12-02T10:32:24Z")

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Hello All,  
We installed months ago Filebeat, Auditbeat, Metricbeat, Heartbeat and Packetbeat on our stand-alone Elastic-Server.  
Now we have deployed a Fleet-server to have some experience with it.  
Something is not clear in my mind concerning the Fleet-server: Can the Fleet-Server take on the functionality of Auditbeat, Metricbeat, Heartbeat and Packetbeat so that these services can be stopped?  
Thank you for your answer.

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deployment-of-a-fleet-server/290750/2 "2021-12-02T14:24:43Z")

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It is not fleet-server that takes on the role of Auditbeat etc. but Elastic Agent. Elastic Agent is a supervisor that runs these Beats as subprocesses. fleet-server is also one of the subprocesses it runs.

Elastic Agent can be run in two modes, standalone and managed. Only in managed mode you need a fleet-server to manage it through Fleet UI in Kibana.

Hope this helps.

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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:** [December 30, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deployment-of-a-fleet-server/290750/3 "2021-12-30T16:25:16Z")

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