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Install Elastic Agents

Install Elastic Agents

- [Instructor] In the last lesson, we set up a Fleet server. So now we're ready to install Elastic Agent onto one of the systems in our stack. We're going to be deploying this onto the system called Web, and we could technically deploy it to more of the instances, but that's the one that we're pretending is our actual live web server that we're going to monitor. So if you're following along right after the Fleet Server install, you should already be sitting on this Add agent page. But just to show how to get here, if you had to take a break, we'll close that, we'll go back to the homepage of Kibana and then open the menu and scroll down to Fleet. And then you can just click Add agent right here. We're going to mostly be using the default parameters here, but let's start by adding a descriptive name for the type of host we're monitoring. So in this case, we'll call this webservers, and you can click Advanced options here, and see what some of the other other options are. We could add a…

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