# Elastic Agent Unenrollment
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-unenrollment/266985
**Category:** Endpoint Security
**Tags:** fleet
**Created:** [March 11, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-unenrollment/266985 "2021-03-11T17:40:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@The1WhoPrtNocks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/The1WhoPrtNocks)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-unenrollment/266985/1 "2021-03-11T17:40:01Z")
Hi,
I was wondering if there were plans as part of an Agent un-enrolment to disable the Elastic Agent service on the host and delete the C:\Program Files\Elastic directory?
As without doing that you can not re-enroll the endpoint using the agent.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@gabriel.landau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gabriel.landau)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-unenrollment/266985/2 "2021-03-16T18:00:23Z")
Hello @The1WhoPrtNocks . Thanks for reaching out. This is actually documented functionality right now: [Unenroll Elastic Agent | Fleet User Guide [7.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/7.11/unenroll-elastic-agent.html)
> The agent will continue to run, but will not be able to send data. It will show this error instead: `invalid api key to authenticate with fleet` .
That being said, I can see how this behavior can be unintuitive. We filed a bug here: [[Agent] Elastic Agent Unenroll Action Leaves Dormant Service and Process Running · Issue #24568 · elastic/beats · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/24568)
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### Author:  [@The1WhoPrtNocks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/The1WhoPrtNocks)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2021, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-unenrollment/266985/3 "2021-04-01T08:29:09Z")
Hi @gabriel.landau ,
Thanks for the info and creating the bug post.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2021, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-unenrollment/266985/4 "2021-04-29T08:29:13Z")
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