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# Remove Monitoring Agents from Ops Manager

**Important: Legacy Monitoring Agent is EoL for Ops Manager 4.4**

[Update](https://www.mongodb.com/docs/ops-manager/current/tutorial/update-mongodb-agent-from-monitoring-agent.md#std-label-update-mongodb-agent-from-monitoring-agent) from your self-managed legacy Monitoring Agent to the [MongoDB Agent.](https://www.mongodb.com/docs/ops-manager/current/tutorial/nav/mongodb-agent.md#std-label-mongodb-agent)

## View Active Agents

To view your active Monitoring Agents, click Deployment, then the Agents tab, then All Agents.

Active agents are those that have pinged Ops Manager in the last 5 minutes.

## Remove from Ops Manager

To remove a Monitoring Agent from Ops Manager, [stop the agent](https://www.mongodb.com/docs/ops-manager/current/tutorial/start-or-stop-monitoring-agent.md#std-label-stop-monitoring-agent) and then wait 5 minutes.

When an agent fails to ping Ops Manager for 5 minutes, Ops Manager views the agent as inactive and distributes the agent's assignments to other agents (if available).

**Note:**

The All Agents page  displays an inactive agent for 24 hours before Ops Manager removes it from the page.

## Delete from the Server

To delete the Monitoring Agent **from a Linux or OSX server**, [stop the agent](https://www.mongodb.com/docs/ops-manager/current/tutorial/start-or-stop-monitoring-agent.md#std-label-stop-monitoring-agent) and then remove the `mongodb-mms-monitoring-agent` file from the `/usr/bin` directory. If you installed the agent using a `tar.gz` file, the agent will be in the directory you chose during installation.

To delete the Monitoring Agent **from a Windows server**, [stop the agent](https://www.mongodb.com/docs/ops-manager/current/tutorial/start-or-stop-monitoring-agent.md#std-label-stop-monitoring-agent-windows) and then use the Windows program uninstaller to remove the `MongoDB Monitoring Agent` program.