Elastic Agent is installed but currently broken: service exists but installation path is missing

[Marcos_Ivan_Robles_H (MarcosRobles)]

Hello

I am following this documentation:
Fleed Manager APM Sever

I never saw the data in Kibana-Observability-APM so I tried to uninstall the elastic-agent from power shell and it did not let me so I deleted manually the folders folder from C:\ProgramFiles\Elastic\Agent and stop the service.

Now I try to install the elastic agent again and it gives me the following error:
Elastic Agent is installed but currently broken: service exists but installation path is missing

Would anyone help me please?

[MichelLaterman]

Hello @Marcos_Ivan_Robles_H,

That error message is due to the fact that you removed C:\ProgramFiles\Elastic\Agent manually without removing the associated service.

You should be able to force a re-install using the force: -f flag when re-running the install command.

Do you know what was the error was when you attempted to run the elastic-agent uninstall command?

[Marcos_Ivan_Robles_H (MarcosRobles)]

Hi Michael

This is the error when I try to uninstall:

I don't understand. I am in the same path the error says.

[stephenb (Stephen Brown)]

@Marcos_Ivan_Robles_H My suggestion..

as @MichelLaterman advised...Install the agent again / over again.

Then uninstall properly

[MichelLaterman]

If you give it the full path to the binary does it uninstall correctly?

[Marcos_Ivan_Robles_H (MarcosRobles)]

Well I tried with the force parameter and it works.
It throw some errors but I continue the process and I can see APM srvices now.

Thank you! @MichelLaterman and @stephenb