Install Elastic Agents

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You can install only a single Elastic Agent per host.

You have a few options for installing and managing an Elastic Agent:

Minimum Requirements

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Minimum requirements have been determined by running the Elastic Agent on a GCP e2-micro instance (2vCPU/1GB). The Elastic Agent used the default policy, running the system integration and self-monitoring.

CPU

Under 2% total, including all monitoring processes

Disk

1.2 GB

RSS Mem Size

800 MB

Adding integrations will increase the memory used by the agent and its processes.