# Detect Systems Type with Elastic

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/detect-systems-type-with-elastic/376436>\
**Category:** Elastic Agent\
**Created:** [March 26, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/detect-systems-type-with-elastic/376436 "2025-03-26T17:38:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/detect-systems-type-with-elastic/376436/1 "2025-03-26T17:38:21Z")

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Hello, I have seen in Observability, that elastic agent can collect metrics regarding metadata information about the host its monitoring.  
Like OS, Cloud Provider, Service Name

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/a/9aeae7c44ea51c67764fd2d4dc3c523913b79c94.png)

I have not seen whether elastic agent can detect if a host is a VM or a physical server, is this possible?