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### Motivation
Improve documentation for Elastic Agents management.
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- Add a "When to update" section
- Add a table of contents
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# Elastic Agent
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## Table of contents
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-[Overview](#overview)
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-[Fleet](#fleet)
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-[Installation](#installation)
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-[Configuration](#configuration)
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-[When to update](#when-to-update)
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-[Investigating the metrics](#investigating-the-metrics)
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## Overview
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The agent runs as a DaemonSet and collects:
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- Collect Kubernetes container logs has been de-activated. We already collect these logs using Fluent Bit and we want to avoid duplication.
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- Collect Kubernetes events from Kubernetes API Server has been de-activated. We already collect these events using Event exporter and we want to avoid duplication.
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## When to update
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- Update Elastic Agent whenever the Elastic Stack (e.g. Elastic Cloud) is upgraded to keep versions aligned.
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- Perform updates via Helm (code change), not directly in Elastic Fleet, to avoid configuration drift.
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- Also update for critical fixes or security advisories from Elastic.
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