- Fleet and Elastic Agent Guide: other versions:
- Fleet and Elastic Agent overview
- Beats and Elastic Agent capabilities
- Quick starts
- Migrate from Beats to Elastic Agent
- Set up Fleet Server
- Install Elastic Agents
- Install Fleet-managed Elastic Agents
- Install standalone Elastic Agents (advanced users)
- Install Elastic Agents in a containerized environment
- Installation layout
- Air-gapped environments
- Use a proxy server with Elastic Agent and Fleet
- Uninstall Elastic Agents from edge hosts
- Start and stop Elastic Agents on edge hosts
- Elastic Agent configuration encryption
- Secure connections
- Manage Elastic Agents in Fleet
- Manage integrations
- Configure standalone Elastic Agents
- Define processors
- Processor syntax
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_cloudfoundry_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_network_direction
- add_nomad_metadata
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_cef
- decode_csv_fields
- decode_duration
- decode_json_fields
- decode_xml
- decode_xml_wineventlog
- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- move_fields
- parse_aws_vpc_flow_log
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- replace
- script
- syslog
- timestamp
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Command reference
- Troubleshoot
- Release notes
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Kubernetes autodiscovery with Elastic Agent
editKubernetes autodiscovery with Elastic Agent
editWhen you run applications on containers, they become moving targets to the monitoring system. Autodiscover allows you to track them and adapt settings as changes happen. By defining configuration templates, the autodiscover subsystem can monitor services as they start running.
To use autodiscovery, you will need to modify the manifest file of the Elastic Agent. Refer to Run Elastic Agent Standalone on Kubernetes to learn how to retrieve and configure it.
There are two different ways to use autodiscovery:
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