Deleting a collector service

this page explains how to delete a collector service collectors without active measurements can be safely deleted after deletion, it is recommended to stop the collector service to prevent it from attempting to send data to the historian for data continuity, it is best practice to first docid\ leqkpxddjqenepmncv45c in the historian webpage to a new collector service , and only then delete the old service delete a collector service before deleting a collector service, stop the collector service first if the service is not stopped, the deleted collector will enter an indefinite sleep state while keeping the service running this is to prevent the collector from needlessly retrying the connection with the historian server collector service naming collector services are named after the collector uuid shown in the historian you can find the uuid by selecting the collector in the historian webpage and checking the id field in the details panel example 05a094a4 118a 11ed 9351 0242ac1c0003 factry collector 05a094a4 118a 11ed 9351 0242ac1c0003 windows open the windows services manager locate the collector service by name stop the service open a command prompt as administrator delete the service sc delete "factry collector service name" linux (systemd) run the following commands in a terminal with sudo privileges to stop, disable, and remove the collector service systemctl stop factry collector service name systemctl disable factry collector service name rm /etc/systemd/system/factry collector service name service systemctl daemon reload expected outcome after deleting a collector service the collector service is removed from the host system no further data is sent by the deleted collector service troubleshooting collector continues sending data or is still reporting status refresh the historian webpage confirm the collector service is stopped and removed from the host system check for multiple collector services running for the same collector