# Multiple Filebeat processes running after install on Windows VM

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-filebeat-processes-running-after-install-on-windows-vm/217083>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** windows-installer, filebeat\
**Created:** [January 29, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-filebeat-processes-running-after-install-on-windows-vm/217083 "2020-01-29T22:39:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![averagedude99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@averagedude99](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/averagedude99)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-filebeat-processes-running-after-install-on-windows-vm/217083/1 "2020-01-29T22:39:32Z")

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installed 7.5.0 version of filebeat on windows VM. after a successful install, noticed that filebeat.exe was running in background when looking at running processes but I had not started service yet.  
i confirmed that there was not another install in place and that the process was indeed pointing to the correct installed location. started the service and observed 2 running processes (pointing to same location) running. ECE admin reached out to me and asked if we had 2 instances running on that server as you would expect.  
Can someone shed some light on this for me?

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**Author:** ![ChrsMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrsmark/32/55858_2.png) [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-filebeat-processes-running-after-install-on-windows-vm/217083/2 "2020-01-30T08:32:55Z")

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Hi!

Did you reboot your machine after the installation? If yes, then this might be the cause. Anyway, since many things might have happened I would suggest to kill the processes and just continue with Start/Stop the service from now on.

C.

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**Author:** ![averagedude99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@averagedude99](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/averagedude99)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-filebeat-processes-running-after-install-on-windows-vm/217083/3 "2020-01-30T14:53:27Z")

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yes, rebooting will resolve the issue based on my testing. however, we are deploying this to a couple thousand machines. rebooting to solve is probably not an option at least initially.

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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:** [February 27, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-filebeat-processes-running-after-install-on-windows-vm/217083/4 "2020-02-27T14:53:30Z")

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