When to use it

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This feature is a good solution if you need to monitor your Elastic applications in restricted Kubernetes environments where you cannot grant advanced permissions:

  • to Metricbeat to allow queriying the k8s API
  • to Filebeat to deploy a privileged DaemonSet

However, for maximum efficiency and minimising resource consumption, or advanced use cases that require specific Beats configurations, you can deploy a standalone Metricbeat Deployment and a Filebeat Daemonset. Check the Beats configuration Examples for more information.