Configure monitoring for standalone Elastic Agents
editConfigure monitoring for standalone Elastic Agents
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.
Elastic Agent monitors Beats by default. To turn off or change monitoring
settings, set options under agent.monitoring in the elastic-agent.yml file.
This example configures Elastic Agent monitoring:
agent.monitoring: # enabled turns on monitoring of running processes enabled: true # enables log monitoring logs: true # enables metrics monitoring metrics: true # specifies output to be used use_output: monitoring
To turn off monitoring, set agent.monitoring.enabled to false. When set to
false, Beats monitoring is turned off, and all other options in this section
are ignored.
To enable monitoring, set agent.monitoring.enabled to true. Also set the
logs and metrics settings to control whether logs, metrics, or both are
collected. If neither setting is specified, monitoring is turned off. Set
use_output to specify the output to which monitoring events are sent.