Elastic Agent
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. 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. Elastic Agent can run in OpenTelemetry mode to retrieve traces, metrics, and logs from your infrastructure and applications, and forward them to Elastic Observability. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. 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.
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Elastic Agent
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In previous versions, the EDOT Collector was a standalone product. From this version onwards, this OpenTelemetry collector capability is built into Elastic Agent.
Elastic Agent includes a built-in OpenTelemetry Collector: an open-source distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.
To install Elastic Agent with basic settings in your environment, follow the quickstart guides.
You can deploy Elastic Agent in different modes to meet your architectural needs. The two primary modes are Agent and Gateway. Depending on your Elastic deployment type, various Elastic Agent instances might be required in each mode to support the target architecture. Refer to Deployment modes for more details.
You can configure Elastic Agent to use the standard OTel Collector configuration file or values.yml file if you have deployed it using Helm.
For full details on each option, see Configuration.
Built on OpenTelemetry's modular architecture, Elastic Agent offers a curated and fully supported selection of components designed for production-grade reliability.
Refer to Components for the full list of components included in Elastic Agent.
To request a component to be added, submit a GitHub issue.
Elastic Agent inherits limitations from the contrib components it includes. Refer to Limitations for a complete list.
For details on the license, see the LICENSE.txt file.