# Understanding the role of elastic agent processes running in my local system

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-the-role-of-elastic-agent-processes-running-in-my-local-system/284961>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** fleet, beats-module, auditbeat, metricbeat, filebeat\
**Created:** [September 23, 2021, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-the-role-of-elastic-agent-processes-running-in-my-local-system/284961 "2021-09-23T05:48:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/understanding-the-role-of-elastic-agent-processes-running-in-my-local-system/284961/2 "2021-09-23T06:00:00Z")

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Please don't start multiple topics on the same question 🙂

Let's continue at [Elastic Agent and Fleet Server Communication](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-and-fleet-server-communication/284823)

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