# Elastic Agent support RHEL 6
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-support-rhel-6/351372
**Category:** Elastic Agent
**Created:** [January 18, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-support-rhel-6/351372 "2024-01-18T17:02:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@sajmeister](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sajmeister)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-support-rhel-6/351372/1 "2024-01-18T17:02:07Z")
Hiya,
We are using Elastic Agent version 8.10.2 and can see it works on RHEL 7 but not on RHEL 6. The Support Matrix also confirms that. We then tried an older version of the Elastic Agent v7.17 on RHEL 6 and that also does not work.
How can we monitor RHEL 6 using agents ?
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### Author:  [@yago82](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yago82)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-support-rhel-6/351372/2 "2024-01-19T07:56:54Z")
> [@sajmeister](#):
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> We are using Elastic Agent version 8.10.2 and can see it works on RHEL 7 but not on RHEL 6. The Support Matrix also confirms that. We then tried an older version of the Elastic Agent v7.17 on RHEL 6 and that also does not work.
>
> How can we monitor RHEL 6 using agents ?
Hi,
Elastic Agent requires a minimum of RHEL 7.
However, you can use Metricbeat and Filebeat to monitor your RHEL 6 servers.
Regards
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### Author:  [@sajmeister](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sajmeister)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-support-rhel-6/351372/3 "2024-01-19T12:33:55Z")
excellent thanks for your quick reply.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-support-rhel-6/351372/4 "2024-02-16T12:34:16Z")
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