# Universal Profiling agent is not starting, failing with pid '71891' exited with code '1'

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/universal-profiling-agent-is-not-starting-failing-with-pid-71891-exited-with-code-1/373220>\
**Category:** Elastic Agent\
**Created:** [January 15, 2025, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/universal-profiling-agent-is-not-starting-failing-with-pid-71891-exited-with-code-1/373220 "2025-01-15T07:56:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pooja\_Gajaram](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pooja_gajaram/32/140684_2.png) [@Pooja\_Gajaram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pooja_Gajaram)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/universal-profiling-agent-is-not-starting-failing-with-pid-71891-exited-with-code-1/373220/1 "2025-01-15T07:56:36Z")

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Elastic is deployed on the default cloud provided by elastic cluster [AWS]  
Universal Profiling agent is not starting, failing with pid '71891' exited with code '1'

Below is the log file :

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/7/57473fe7167a87b2ab398088a53bfefae94d20ae.png)

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**Author:** ![Pooja\_Gajaram](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pooja_gajaram/32/140684_2.png) [@Pooja\_Gajaram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pooja_Gajaram)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/universal-profiling-agent-is-not-starting-failing-with-pid-71891-exited-with-code-1/373220/2 "2025-01-15T08:10:21Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/5/a5baca303cc133dd139eacef4b2c76c4ed86b1db.png)

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**Author:** ![Florian\_Lehner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/florian_lehner/32/97221_2.png) [@Florian\_Lehner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Florian_Lehner)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/universal-profiling-agent-is-not-starting-failing-with-pid-71891-exited-with-code-1/373220/3 "2025-06-30T10:57:55Z")

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Hi @Pooja_Gajaram  
Without a diagnostics file, it is hard to investigate more. Can you provide the diagnostics file please?