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Fleet settings in Kibana

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Fleet settings in Kibana

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In Elastic Cloud, Fleet flags are already configured.

You can configure xpack.fleet settings in your kibana.yml. By default, Fleet is enabled. To use Fleet, you also need to configure Kibana and Elasticsearch hosts.

See the Fleet docs for more information.

General Fleet settings

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xpack.fleet.enabled logo cloud [7.16.0] Deprecated in 7.16.0. In 8.0 and later, this setting will no longer be supported. Set to true (default) to enable Fleet.

xpack.fleet.agents.enabled logo cloud
Set to true (default) to enable Fleet.

Elastic Package Manager settings

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xpack.fleet.registryUrl
The address to use to reach the Elastic Package Manager registry.
xpack.fleet.registryProxyUrl
The proxy address to use to reach the Elastic Package Manager registry if an internet connection is not directly available. Refer to Air-gapped environments for details.

Fleet settings

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xpack.fleet.agents.fleet_server.hosts
Hostnames used by Elastic Agent for accessing Fleet Server.
xpack.fleet.agents.elasticsearch.hosts
Hostnames used by Elastic Agent for accessing Elasticsearch.
xpack.fleet.agents.elasticsearch.ca_sha256
Hash pin used for certificate verification. The pin is a base64-encoded string of the SHA-256 fingerprint.

Preconfiguration settings (for advanced use cases)

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Use these settings to pre-define integrations and agent policies that you want Fleet to load up by default.

xpack.fleet.packages

List of integrations that are installed when the Fleet app starts up for the first time.

Required properties of xpack.fleet.packages
name
Name of the integration from the package registry.
version
Either an exact semantic version, or the keyword latest to fetch the latest integration version.
xpack.fleet.agentPolicies

List of agent policies that are configured when the Fleet app starts.

Required properties of xpack.fleet.agentPolicies
id
Unique ID for this policy. The ID may be a number or string.
name
Policy name.
Optional properties of xpack.fleet.agentPolicies
description
Text description of this policy.
namespace
String identifying this policy’s namespace.
monitoring_enabled
List of keywords that specify the monitoring data to collect. Valid values include ['logs'], ['metrics'], and ['logs', 'metrics'].
is_managed
If true, this policy is not editable by the user and can only be changed by updating the Kibana config.
is_default
If true, this policy is the default agent policy.
is_default_fleet_server
If true, this policy is the default Fleet Server agent policy.
data_output_id
ID of the output to send data. (Need to be identical to monitoring_output_id)
monitoring_output_id
ID of the output to send monitoring data. (Need to be identical to data_output_id)
package_policies

List of integration policies to add to this policy.

Properties of package_policies
id
Unique ID of the integration policy. The ID may be a number or string.
name
(required) Name of the integration policy.
package

(required) Integration that this policy configures.

Properties of package
name
Name of the integration associated with this policy.
description
Text string describing this integration policy.
namespace
String identifying this policy’s namespace.
inputs
Array that overrides any default input settings for this integration. Follows the same schema as integration inputs, with the exception that any object in vars can be passed frozen: true in order to prevent that specific var from being edited by the user.
xpack.fleet.outputs

List of outputs that are configured when the Fleet app starts.

Required properties of xpack.fleet.outputs
id
Unique ID for this output. The ID should be a string.
name
Output name.
type
Type of Output. Currently we only support "elasticsearch".
hosts
Array that contains the list of host for that output.
config
Extra config for that output.
Optional properties of xpack.fleet.outputs
is_default
If true, this output is the default output.

Example configuration:

xpack.fleet.packages:
  - name: apache
    version: 0.5.0

xpack.fleet.agentPolicies:
  - name: Preconfigured Policy
    id: 1
    namespace: test
    package_policies:
      - package:
          name: system
        name: System Integration
        id: preconfigured-system
        inputs:
          - type: system/metrics
            enabled: true
            vars:
              - name: system.hostfs
                value: home/test
            streams:
              - data_stream:
                  dataset: system.core
                enabled: true
                vars:
                  - name: period
                    value: 20s
          - type: winlog
            enabled: false
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