content/telegraf/controller/agents/delete.md
Remove individual or multiple Telegraf agents from {{% product-name %}}.
<!-- TOC --> <!-- /TOC -->[!Note] Deleting an agent from {{% product-name %}} does not affect the running Telegraf instance; it only deletes the record of the agent from Telegraf Controller.
Use reporting rules to automatically delete agents that have not reported in a specified amount of time.
If agents assigned to the reporting rule do not report in the defined auto-delete threshold, they are automatically deleted.