Inventory

[preview] This 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.

Inventory provides a single place to observe the status of your entire ecosystem of hosts, containers, and services at a glance, even just from logs. From there, you can monitor and understand the health of your entities, check what needs attention, and start your investigations.

The new Inventory requires the Elastic Entity Model (EEM). To learn more, refer to Elastic Entity Model.

Inventory is currently available for hosts, containers, and services, but it will scale to support all of your entities.

The EEM currently supports the inventory experience (as identified by host.name, service.name, and container.id) located in data identified by the following index patterns:

Hosts

Where host.name is set in metrics-*, logs-*, filebeat-*, and metricbeat-*

Services

Where service.name is set in filebeat*, logs-*, metrics-apm.service_transaction.1m*, and metrics-apm.service_summary.1m*

Containers

Where container.id is set in metrics-*, logs-*, filebeat-*, and metricbeat-*

Inventory allows you to:

Filter for your entities to provide a high-level view of what you have leveraging your own tags and labels
Drill down into any host, container, or service to help you understand performance
Debug resource bottlenecks with your service caused by their containers and the hosts they run on.
Easily discover all entities related to the host, container or service you are viewing by leveraging your tags and labels

Explore your entities

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In your Observability project, go to Inventory to view all of your entities.

When you open the Inventory for the first time, you’ll be asked to enable the EEM. Once enabled, the Inventory will be accessible to anyone with the appropriate privileges.

The Inventory feature can be completely disabled using the observability:entityCentricExperience flag in Stack Management.
In the search bar, search for your entities by name or type, for example entity.type:service.

For each entity, you can click the entity name and get a detailed view. For example, for an entity of type service, you get the following details:

Overview
Transactions
Dependencies
Errors
Metrics
Infrastructure
Service Map
Logs
Alerts
Dashboards

If you open an entity of type host or container that does not have infrastructure data, some of the visualizations will be blank and some features on the page will not be fully populated.

Add entities to the Inventory

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Entities are added to the Inventory through one of the following approaches: Add data or Associate existing service logs.

Add data

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To add entities, select Add data from the left-hand navigation and choose one of the following onboarding journeys:

Auto-detect logs and metrics: Detects hosts (with metrics and logs)
Kubernetes: Detects hosts, containers, and services
Elastic APM / OpenTelemetry / Synthetic Monitor: Detects services

Associate existing service logs

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To learn how, refer to Add a service name to logs.

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