# Disabling a monitor doesn't actually disable it
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-a-monitor-doesnt-actually-disable-it/315936
**Category:** Synthetics
**Created:** [October 6, 2022, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-a-monitor-doesnt-actually-disable-it/315936 "2022-10-06T07:35:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@woodywoodsta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/woodywoodsta)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-a-monitor-doesnt-actually-disable-it/315936/1 "2022-10-06T07:35:25Z")
Hey!
I've got a couple of monitors disabled via the Monitor Management screen, but the monitors continue to run. Is this a known issue? My monitors are executed on fleet managed elastic agents via Kubernetes. I've tried to toggle the enable/disable toggle a number of times: it generates a new Agent policy, but it doesn't appear to effect any difference.
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### Author:  [@shahzad31](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shahzad31)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-a-monitor-doesnt-actually-disable-it/315936/2 "2022-10-06T10:32:24Z")
Thank you for raising this @woodywoodsta , this seems to be a bug in heartbeat, i have raised an issue here [Disabled synthetics agent policy continue to run with heartbeat · Issue #33270 · elastic/beats · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/33270)
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### Author:  [@woodywoodsta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/woodywoodsta)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-a-monitor-doesnt-actually-disable-it/315936/3 "2022-10-06T10:46:34Z")
Thanks for raising that @shahzad31 !
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-a-monitor-doesnt-actually-disable-it/315936/4 "2022-10-30T10:46:40Z")
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