Hi Community I have a question about the prefect agents If I

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Hi Community I have a question about the prefect agents If I have a prefect agent running on a machine can it run concurrent flows or does prefect need to have 2 agents running simultaneously to have concurrent flows running

Jim Crist-Harif · Answer

One agent can kick off multiple concurrent flows

Richard Hughes · Answer

okay I think this might solve my problem with the issue I opened last Friday

Jim Crist-Harif · Answer

The only reason to have multiple agents is if you need to run flows with different platform configurations and those differences can t be configured on the flows side by a run config <https docs prefect io orchestration flow config run configs html>

Jim Crist-Harif · Answer

Regarding that issue we ve identified the rare race condition that could lead to that issue and should have a fix incoming Prefect Cloud shouldn t have issues with multiple identical agents running barring the bug you found but there also isn t really a need for multiple identical agents

Richard Hughes · Answer

okay this makes sense thanks for finding this issue and I will turn off the 2nd agents for each one of projects I am running since it is not required