# I’m seeing Centos7 OS reported as wrong OS RHEL (not surprising) but is that expected Beat behavior?

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**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [May 18, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-m-seeing-centos7-os-reported-as-wrong-os-rhel-not-surprising-but-is-that-expected-beat-behavior/233206 "2020-05-18T21:59:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![EricDavisX](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ericdavisx/32/73456_2.png) [@EricDavisX](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/EricDavisX)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-m-seeing-centos7-os-reported-as-wrong-os-rhel-not-surprising-but-is-that-expected-beat-behavior/233206/1 "2020-05-18T21:59:56Z")

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I'm seeing this with the MetricBeat and FileBeat deploys that come with the 7.8 Alpha Elastic Agent.

I didn't see any 'wrong os' Agent discussions immediately so I'm asking.

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**Author:** ![mtojek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mtojek/32/63863_2.png) [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-m-seeing-centos7-os-reported-as-wrong-os-rhel-not-surprising-but-is-that-expected-beat-behavior/233206/2 "2020-05-19T10:32:57Z")

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It would be great if you can post any logs, event to have a reference point in the discussion.

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**Author:** ![EricDavisX](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ericdavisx/32/73456_2.png) [@EricDavisX](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/EricDavisX)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-m-seeing-centos7-os-reported-as-wrong-os-rhel-not-surprising-but-is-that-expected-beat-behavior/233206/3 "2020-05-20T17:02:42Z")

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Thank you, I chatted with team and decided to log it to Elastic Beats repo.

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**Author:** ![EricDavisX](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ericdavisx/32/73456_2.png) [@EricDavisX](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/EricDavisX)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-m-seeing-centos7-os-reported-as-wrong-os-rhel-not-surprising-but-is-that-expected-beat-behavior/233206/4 "2020-06-17T19:02:45Z")

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