Hello everyone is it correct to run 1 agent for each flow

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Stéphan Taljaard · Answer

Hi I m using one agent for multiple flows However when the flows run simultaneously each s runtime is longer Let s see what feedback others have

ciaran · Answer

AFAIK and I ve been running Prefect for a few months now you can just have 1 agent for many flows

ciaran · Answer

If you re running flows locally then yes this will inevitably slow up execution times but if you re executing flows via something like Dask then your agent is only involved in starting and communicating with the jobs

Stéphan Taljaard · Answer

I should have mentioned yes I ve been testing using LocalAgent

ciaran · Answer

For context we use ECS on AWS or K8s on Azure our Agent is either a pod or a ECS task which will both in turn then spin out containers to manage the Prefect flows and the tasks they spin out