AuthThe Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.AvailabilityBeta since 8.12This functionality is in beta and is not ready for production usage. For beta features, the design and code is less mature than official GA features and is being provided as-is with no warranties. Beta features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Specific Support terms apply.Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.
Connectors are Elasticsearch integrations that bring content from third-party data sources, which can be deployed on Elastic Cloud or hosted on your own infrastructure.
Elastic managed connectors (Native connectors) are a managed service on Elastic Cloud.
Self-managed connectors (Connector clients) are self-managed on your infrastructure.