- 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
- Deployment models
- Install Elastic Agents
- Install Fleet-managed Elastic Agents
- Install standalone Elastic Agents
- Install Elastic Agents in a containerized environment
- Run Elastic Agent in a container
- Run Elastic Agent on Kubernetes managed by Fleet
- Install Elastic Agent on Kubernetes using Helm
- Example: Install standalone Elastic Agent on Kubernetes using Helm
- Example: Install Fleet-managed Elastic Agent on Kubernetes using Helm
- Advanced Elastic Agent configuration managed by Fleet
- Configuring Kubernetes metadata enrichment on Elastic Agent
- Run Elastic Agent on GKE managed by Fleet
- Run Elastic Agent on Amazon EKS managed by Fleet
- Run Elastic Agent on Azure AKS managed by Fleet
- Run Elastic Agent Standalone on Kubernetes
- Scaling Elastic Agent on Kubernetes
- Using a custom ingest pipeline with the Kubernetes Integration
- Environment variables
- Run Elastic Agent as an OTel Collector
- Run Elastic Agent without administrative privileges
- Install Elastic Agent from an MSI package
- Installation layout
- Air-gapped environments
- Using 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
- Configure standalone Elastic Agents
- Create a standalone Elastic Agent policy
- Structure of a config file
- Inputs
- Providers
- Outputs
- SSL/TLS
- Logging
- Feature flags
- Agent download
- Config file examples
- Grant standalone Elastic Agents access to Elasticsearch
- Example: Use standalone Elastic Agent with Elastic Cloud Serverless to monitor nginx
- Example: Use standalone Elastic Agent with Elasticsearch Service to monitor nginx
- Debug standalone Elastic Agents
- Kubernetes autodiscovery with Elastic Agent
- Monitoring
- Reference YAML
- Manage integrations
- Package signatures
- Add an integration to an Elastic Agent policy
- View integration policies
- Edit or delete an integration policy
- Install and uninstall integration assets
- View integration assets
- Set integration-level outputs
- Upgrade an integration
- Managed integrations content
- Best practices for integrations assets
- Data streams
- 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
Run Elastic Agent as an OTel Collector
editRun Elastic Agent as an OTel Collector
editThis functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
The OpenTelemetry Collector is a vendor-neutral way to receive, process, and export telemetry data. Elastic Agent includes an embedded OTel Collector, enabling you to instrument your applications and infrastructure once, and send data to multiple vendors and backends.
When you run Elastic Agent in otel
mode it supports the standard OTel Collector configuration format that defines a set of receivers, processors, exporters, and connectors. Logs, metrics, and traces can be ingested using OpenTelemetry data formats.
For a full overview and steps to configure Elastic Agent in otel
mode, including a guided onboarding, refer to the Elastic Distributions for OpenTelemetry repository in GitHub. You can also check the elastic-agent otel
command in the Fleet and Elastic Agent Command reference.