# How to extend Elastic Agent ability?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-extend-elastic-agent-ability/374788>\
**Category:** Elastic Security\
**Created:** [February 20, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-extend-elastic-agent-ability/374788 "2025-02-20T03:38:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![wangshifeng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b9bd4f/32.png) [@wangshifeng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wangshifeng)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-extend-elastic-agent-ability/374788/1 "2025-02-20T03:38:33Z")

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I'm trying to extend the functionality of Elastic Agent and I have the following questions:

1. If I create an Integration and upload this package to Kibana, is this a feature available only in the commercial version, or is it free? I see the following prompt .  

2. I have a program that I want to run as a subprocess of the Elastic Agent and upload the data it generates to Kafka. How should I go about this? Should I create a Component and an Integration? In my development environment, I tried placing my program in the Components directory and wrote a spec.yaml file. Then I configured an input in the elastic-agent.yaml. When I started the Elastic Agent, I found that it launched my program. What should I do in a production environment?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-extend-elastic-agent-ability/374788/2 "2025-03-20T03:39:07Z")

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