Infrastructure and host monitoring
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. Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments. 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.
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Explore the topics in this section to learn how to observe and monitor hosts and other systems running in your environment.
To work with metrics from any source, including Prometheus and custom application metrics, refer to Metrics.
We recommend using Elastic Agent to collect infrastructure metrics and logs. You can also use the Elastic Agent with integrations for infrastructure monitoring.
| Analyze infrastructure and host metrics | Visualize infrastructure metrics to help diagnose problematic spikes, identify high resource utilization, automatically discover and track pods, and unify your metrics with other observability data. |
| Universal Profiling | Profile all the code running on a machine, including application code, kernel, and third-party libraries. |
| Tutorial: Observe your Kubernetes deployments | Observe all layers of your application, including the orchestration software itself. |
| Tutorial: Observe your nginx instances | Collect valuable metrics and logs from your nginx instances. |
| Troubleshooting | Troubleshoot common issues on your own or ask for help. |
| Metrics reference | Learn about the key metrics displayed in the Infrastructure UI and how they are calculated. |