Synthetics support matrix
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.
Stack
Generally available
There are various components that make up the Synthetics solution, which are supported in the following configurations:
GA support: 8.8.0 and higher
Notes:
- For creating and managing lightweight and browser monitors configured through the Synthetics app
- For reporting for lightweight and browser monitors configured through the Synthetics app or Project monitors
- GA support: 8.8.0 and higher
- Notes: For creating and managing lightweight and browser monitors configured as Project monitors
GA support: 8.8.0 and higher
Notes: Elastic’s infrastructure for running lightweight and browser monitors configured through the Synthetics app and/or Project monitors
Executing synthetic tests on Elastic’s global managed testing infrastructure incurs an additional charge. Tests are charged under one of two new billing dimensions depending on the monitor type. For browser monitor usage, there is a fee per test run. For lightweight monitor usage, there is a fee per region in which you run any monitors regardless of the number of test runs. For more details, refer to full details and current pricing.
GA support: 8.8.0 and higher
Notes:
For running lightweight and browser monitors from your self-managed infrastructure
Relies on the Synthetics integration 1.0.0 or above
- Any inline or Zip URL monitors configured with the beta Synthetics integration before 1.0.0, are not supported and will stop running in the future
Shipped as multiple
elastic-agentvariants:elastic-agent-complete, exclusively provided as a Docker image which includes all dependencies required to run browser, TCP, HTTP, and ICMP monitors.elastic-agentwhich only supports TCP, HTTP, and ICMP monitors.
Must have a direct connection to Elasticsearch
- Do not configure any ingest pipelines or Logstash output
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability This functionality is not available in Elastic Cloud Serverless. The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability This functionality is deprecated. You can still use it, but it'll be removed in a future Elastic Stack update. 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.
Serverless
Unavailable
Unavailable
Stack
Deprecated
8.15+
Deprecated since 8.15
GA support: As defined in the standard Support matrix
Notes:
- For running lightweight monitors via YML configuration running on self-managed infrastructure
- Browser-based monitors are not supported in this configuration
GA support: As defined in the standard Support matrix
Notes:
- For running lightweight monitors via YML configuration running on self-managed infrastructure with standalone Elastic Agent
- Browser-based monitors are not supported in this configuration
- Results for monitors configured using the standalone Elastic Agent are available in the Uptime app (not the Synthetics app)
System requirements:
macOS - High Sierra and newer
Windows - Windows 10 and newer
Linux:
- Ubuntu - 14.04 and newer
- Fedora - 24 and newer
- Debian - 8 and newer
Synthetics must have a direct connection to Elasticsearch, whether running monitors from Elastic’s global managed testing infrastructure or from Private Locations.
Do not configure any ingest pipelines or output via Logstash as this will prevent Synthetics from working properly and is not supported.