# Elastic-Agent Zombie process

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-zombie-process/279123>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** elastic-agent\
**Created:** [July 20, 2021, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-zombie-process/279123 "2021-07-20T07:38:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![hermlam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8797f3/32.png) [@hermlam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hermlam)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-zombie-process/279123/1 "2021-07-20T07:38:53Z")

</div>

Hi,  
On all my (freshly installed) Ubuntu servers I installed elastic-agent via the tarball method. On every server there is a 'zombie' elastic-agent process present next to the working elastic-agent. What's going on here? Elastic-agent is working fine by the way.  
Thanks,  
Herman

 ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/3/130f476c779c6fea25e38ae46377059cffc60abd.jpeg)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-zombie-process/279123/2 "2021-08-17T09:39:30Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.