- Fleet and Elastic Agent Guide: other versions:
- Fleet and Elastic Agent overview
- Beats and Elastic Agent capabilities
- Quick start: Get logs, metrics, and uptime data into the Elastic Stack
- Quick start: Get application traces into the Elastic Stack
- Integrations
- Elastic Agents
- Install Elastic Agents
- Uninstall Elastic Agent
- Run Elastic Agent standalone (advanced users)
- Run Elastic Agent in a container
- Run Elastic Agent on Kubernetes managed by Fleet
- Run Elastic Agent standalone on Kubernetes
- Upgrade Elastic Agent
- Start Elastic Agent
- Stop Elastic Agent
- Unenroll Elastic Agent
- View status of Elastic Agents
- Variables and conditions in input configurations
- Environment variables
- Configure logging for Fleet-managed Elastic Agents
- Policies
- Elastic Agent standalone configuration
- Fleet UI settings
- Fleet Server
- Fleet enrollment tokens
- Encrypt traffic in clusters with a self-managed Fleet Server
- Data streams
- Command reference
- Troubleshoot common problems
- Frequently asked questions
- Release notes
- Fleet APIs
Elastic Agent standalone configuration
editElastic Agent standalone configuration
editRunning Elastic Agent in standalone mode is an advanced use case. The documentation is incomplete and not yet mature. When possible, we recommend using Fleet-managed agents instead of standalone mode.
Standalone Elastic Agents are manually configured and managed locally on the systems
where they are installed. To configure standalone Elastic Agents, specify settings
in the elastic-agent.yml file deployed with the agent. Prior to installation,
the file is located in the extracted Elastic Agent package. After installation, the
file is copied to the directory described in Installation layout. To apply
changes after installation, you must modify the installed file.
The following sections describe some settings you might need to configure to run an Elastic Agent standalone. For a full reference example, refer to the elastic-agent.reference.yml file.
The settings described here are available for standalone Elastic Agents. Settings for Fleet-managed agents are specified through the UI. You do not set them explicitly in a configuration file.
To get started quickly, you can use Fleet to generate a standalone configuration. You’ll still need to deploy and manage the file, though. For more information, see Run Elastic Agent standalone (advanced users).