Elastic Agent is a single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host. It can also protect hosts from security threats, query data from operating systems, and more. A single agent makes it easier and faster to deploy monitoring across your infrastructure. Each agent has a single policy you can update to add integrations for new data sources, security protections, and more.
Fleet allows you to centrally manage Elastic Agents running the APM integration. The default option is to install a Fleet Server on a dedicated host.
Central management in Fleet #
Fleet provides a web-based UI in Kibana for centrally managing Elastic Agents and their policies.
You can see the state of all your Elastic Agents in Fleet. On the Agents page, you can see which agents are healthy or unhealthy, and the last time they checked in. You can also see the version of the Elastic Agent binary and policy.
Elastic Agent is a single agent for logs, metrics, uptime, security data, and threat prevention. You deploy the agent to your hosts or containers, and behind the scenes, Elastic Agent it runs the Beats shippers or Elastic Endpoint required for your configuration. The shippers are managed by Elastic Agent — you do not install or configure them individually.
To get started with Elastic Agent, refer to:
To get started with Elastic Agent, refer to:
For more information, refer to Elastic Documentation: Install Elastic Agents.