I’m trying to sort out how to run prefect agents as background processes. Running an agent alone interactively works well (connects with work queue perfectly). But then I tried to run as a background process using supervisor via systemctl, and the agent is running, but it’s not connected to the work queue previously created - the work queue in the app.prefect.cloud UI is in an unhealthy state. Any troubleshooting tips?

yep, wherever the agent runs will need those env vars to be set so it can communicate with cloud (or your instance of the server) here's a setup guide if you haven't seen it

Related-ish question: Any guidelines on how many agents to use?

I'd say that it depends highly on your objectives / runtime infra, but generally I'd say agents are 1 to 1 with execution environments

thanks!