- Observability: other versions:
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 8.5
- Send data to Elasticsearch
- Spin up the Elastic Stack
- Deploy Elastic Agent to send data
- Deploy Beats to send data
- Elastic Serverless Forwarder for AWS
- Deploy serverless forwarder
- Configuration options
- Troubleshooting
- Observability overview page
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Log monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Uptime and synthetic monitoring
- User Experience
- Alerting
- Cases
- CI/CD observability
- Troubleshooting
- Fields reference
- Tutorials
- Monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Elastic Agent
- Monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Beats
- Monitor Google Cloud Platform
- Monitor a Java application
- Monitor Kubernetes
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with Elastic Agent
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with the native Azure integration
- Monitor Microsoft Azure with Beats
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Send data to Elasticsearch
editSend data to Elasticsearch
editElastic provides two main ways to send data to Elasticsearch:
- Elastic Agent, a single agent for logs, metrics, uptime, security data, and threat prevention.
- Legacy Beats, lightweight data shippers that send operational data to Elasticsearch. Elastic provides separate Beats for different types of data, such as logs, metrics, and uptime.
The method you use depends on your use case, which features you need, and whether you want to centrally manage your agents. Not sure whether to use Beats or Elastic Agent? Refer to Beats and Elastic Agent capabilities.
To get started, refer to:
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