# Elastic Agent Causing CPU High Utilization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-causing-cpu-high-utilization/312217>\
**Category:** Elastic Agent\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [August 16, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-causing-cpu-high-utilization/312217 "2022-08-16T19:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![daniel.talbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b3f665/32.png) [@daniel.talbot](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daniel.talbot)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-causing-cpu-high-utilization/312217/1 "2022-08-16T19:56:48Z")

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Currently we are running Elastic fleet agent to pick up on all logs as you can see in the picture attached. The problem is on our database nodes we would like to skip it from looking at the postgres process so that it doesn't run like crazy. Currently it is averaging 149% CPU Utilization. Was curious if there is a not character I can add in front of the process to skip the monitoring below the monitor all.

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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:** [September 13, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-causing-cpu-high-utilization/312217/2 "2022-09-13T19:57:01Z")

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