Ingestion options

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You have a number of options for ingesting data with AWS. The following table helps you identify which option best fits your needs:

Amazon Data Firehose ESF Elastic Agent Beats

logs

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

metrics

No

No

Yes

Yes

PrivateLink support / VPC

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

pros

Managed service, auto-scale

Auto-scale, built-in support for SQS

Supports all integrations, manages multiple agents using Fleet

Large configuration options

cons

Few configuration options

Partial integrations support

Not a managed service, no auto-scale

Not a managed service, no auto-scale

Overview of the ingest process

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The high-level architecture is shown below.

Ingest options