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Fleet settings in Kibana

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Fleet settings in Kibana

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In Elastic Cloud, Fleet flags are already configured.

You can configure xpack.fleet settings in your kibana.yml. By default, Fleet is enabled. To use Fleet, you also need to configure Kibana and Elasticsearch hosts.

See the Fleet docs for more information.

General Fleet settings

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xpack.fleet.enabled Set to true (default) to enable Fleet.

xpack.fleet.agents.enabled: Set to true (default) to enable Fleet.

Elastic Package Manager settings

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xpack.fleet.registryUrl: The address to use to reach the Elastic Package Manager registry.
xpack.fleet.registryProxyUrl: The proxy address to use to reach the Elastic Package Manager registry if an internet connection is not directly available.

Fleet settings

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xpack.fleet.agents.fleet_server.hosts: Hostnames used by Elastic Agent for accessing Fleet Server.
xpack.fleet.agents.elasticsearch.hosts: Hostnames used by Elastic Agent for accessing Elasticsearch.
xpack.fleet.agents.elasticsearch.ca_sha256: Hash pin used for certificate verification. The pin is a base64-encoded string of the SHA-256 fingerprint.

Preconfiguration settings (for advanced use cases)

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Use these settings to pre-define integrations and agent policies that you want Fleet to load up by default.

xpack.fleet.packages

List of integrations that are installed when the Fleet app starts up for the first time.

Required properties of xpack.fleet.packages

name: Name of the integration from the package registry.
version: Either an exact semantic version, or the keyword latest to fetch the latest integration version.

xpack.fleet.agentPolicies

List of agent policies that are configured when the Fleet app starts.

Required properties of xpack.fleet.agentPolicies

id: Unique ID for this policy. The ID may be a number or string.
name: Policy name.

Optional properties of xpack.fleet.agentPolicies

description

Text description of this policy.

namespace

String identifying this policy’s namespace.

monitoring_enabled

List of keywords that specify the monitoring data to collect. Valid values include ['logs'], ['metrics'], and ['logs', 'metrics'].

is_managed

If true, this policy is not editable by the user and can only be changed by updating the Kibana config.

is_default

If true, this policy is the default agent policy.

is_default_fleet_server

If true, this policy is the default Fleet Server agent policy.

package_policies

List of integration policies to add to this policy.

Properties of package_policies

name

(required) Name of the integration policy.

package

(required) Integration that this policy configures.

Properties of package

name: Name of the integration associated with this policy.

description

Text string describing this integration policy.

namespace

String identifying this policy’s namespace.

inputs

Array that overrides any default input settings for this integration. Follows the same schema as integration inputs, with the exception that any object in vars can be passed frozen: true in order to prevent that specific var from being edited by the user.

Example configuration:

xpack.fleet.packages:
  - name: apache
    version: 0.5.0

xpack.fleet.agentPolicies:
  - name: Preconfigured Policy
    id: 1
    namespace: test
    package_policies:
      - package:
          name: system
        name: System Integration
        inputs:
          - type: system/metrics
            enabled: true
            vars:
              - name: system.hostfs
                value: home/test
            streams:
              - data_stream:
                  dataset: system.core
                enabled: true
                vars:
                  - name: period
                    value: 20s
          - type: winlog
            enabled: false

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