We are working towards providing an option for Elastic Agent to run without superuser privileges. we stumbled over a couple of use cases where integrations need to be run as root in order to access some system metrics and others admin settings.

In order to automatically know what integrations need root permission we should add an option in the package spec manifest just as follow:

name: system
title: System
version: 1.33.0
license: basic
description: Collect system logs and metrics from your servers with Elastic Agent (TSDB Beta).
type: integration
categories:
  - os_system
release: ga
conditions:
  kibana.version: '^8.8.0'
  **need.root: 'true'**
screenshots:
  - src: /img/kibana-system.png