# How to Completely Disable Telemetry in Elastic Stack 8.18.4?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-telemetry-in-elastic-stack-8-18-4/381102>\
**Category:** Elastic Agent\
**Created:** [August 18, 2025, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-telemetry-in-elastic-stack-8-18-4/381102 "2025-08-18T08:45:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![xqaiviwjxzw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xqaiviwjxzw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xqaiviwjxzw)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-telemetry-in-elastic-stack-8-18-4/381102/1 "2025-08-18T08:45:53Z")

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For compliance reasons, we must ensure that Kibana, Fleet, Elastic Agent, and other components **do not send any telemetry or usage data to external domains**.

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**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-telemetry-in-elastic-stack-8-18-4/381102/2 "2025-08-18T17:56:34Z")

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add this in kibana

telemetry.enabled: false

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**Author:** ![xqaiviwjxzw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xqaiviwjxzw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xqaiviwjxzw)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-completely-disable-telemetry-in-elastic-stack-8-18-4/381102/3 "2025-08-19T07:19:27Z")

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OK, thanks for your reply

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