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Installation layout

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Installation layout

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Elastic Agent files are installed in the following locations.

/Library/Elastic/Agent/*
Elastic Agent program files
/Library/Elastic/Agent/elastic-agent.yml
Main Elastic Agent configuration
/Library/Elastic/Agent/fleet.enc
Main Elastic Agent Fleet encrypted configuration
/Library/Elastic/Agent/data/elastic-agent-*/logs/elastic-agent.ndjson
Log files for Elastic Agent and Beats shippers [1]
/usr/bin/elastic-agent
Shell wrapper installed into PATH

You can install Elastic Agent in a custom base path other than /Library. When installing Elastic Agent with the ./elastic-agent install command, use the --base-path CLI option to specify the custom base path.

[1] Logs file names end with a date (YYYYMMDD) and optional number: elastic-agent-YYYYMMDD.ndjson, elastic-agent-YYYYMMDD-1.ndjson, and so on as new files are created during rotation.
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