- Observability: other versions:
- Get started
- What is Elastic Observability?
- What’s new in 8.17
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with OpenTelemetry
- Quickstart: Unified Kubernetes Observability with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT)
- Quickstart: Collect data with AWS Firehose
- Add data from Splunk
- Applications and services
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Get started
- Learn about data types
- Collect application data
- View and analyze data
- Act on data
- Use APM securely
- Manage storage
- Configure APM Server
- Monitor APM Server
- APM APIs
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrade
- Release notes
- Known issues
- Synthetic monitoring
- Get started
- Scripting browser monitors
- Configure lightweight monitors
- Manage monitors
- Work with params and secrets
- Analyze monitor data
- Monitor resources on private networks
- Use the CLI
- Configure projects
- Multi-factor Authentication
- Configure Synthetics settings
- Grant users access to secured resources
- Manage data retention
- Use Synthetics with traffic filters
- Migrate from the Elastic Synthetics integration
- Scale and architect a deployment
- Synthetics support matrix
- Synthetics Encryption and Security
- Troubleshooting
- Real user monitoring
- Uptime monitoring (deprecated)
- Tutorial: Monitor a Java application
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Infrastructure and hosts
- Logs
- Troubleshooting
- Incident management
- Data set quality
- Observability AI Assistant
- Reference
Quickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Agent
editQuickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Agent
editIn this quickstart guide, you’ll learn how to create the Kubernetes resources that are required to monitor your cluster infrastructure.
This new approach requires minimal configuration and provides you with an easy setup to monitor your infrastructure. You no longer need to download, install, or configure the Elastic Agent, everything happens automatically when you run the kubectl command.
The kubectl command installs the standalone Elastic Agent in your Kubernetes cluster, downloads all the Kubernetes resources needed to collect metrics from the cluster, and sends it to Elastic.
Prerequisites
edit- An Elasticsearch cluster for storing and searching your data, and Kibana for visualizing and managing your data. This quickstart is available for all Elastic deployment models. To get started quickly, try out our hosted Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud.
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A user with the
superuserbuilt-in role or the privileges required to onboard data. - A running Kubernetes cluster.
- Kubectl.
Collect your data
edit- In Kibana, go to the Observability UI and click Add Data.
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Under What do you want to monitor? select Kubernetes, and then select Elastic Agent: Logs & Metrics.
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To install the Elastic Agent on your host, copy and run the install command.
You will use the kubectl command to download a manifest file, inject user’s API key generated by Kibana, and create the Kubernetes resources.
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Go back to the Add Observability Data page.
There might be a slight delay before data is ingested. When ready, you will see the message We are monitoring your cluster.
- Click Explore Kubernetes cluster to navigate to dashboards and explore your data.
Visualize your data
editAfter installation is complete and all relevant data is flowing into Elastic, the Visualize your data section allows you to access the Kubernetes Cluster Overview dashboard that can be used to monitor the health of the cluster.
Furthermore, you can access other useful prebuilt dashboards for monitoring Kubernetes resources, for example running pods per namespace, as well as the resources they consume, like CPU and memory.
Refer to What is Elastic Observability? for a description of other useful features.