- Elastic Cloud Serverless
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- Elastic Observability
- Get started
- Observability overview
- Elastic Observability Serverless billing dimensions
- Create an Observability project
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Agent
- Quickstart: Monitor hosts with OpenTelemetry
- Quickstart: Unified Kubernetes Observability with Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT)
- Quickstart: Collect data with AWS Firehose
- Get started with dashboards
- Applications and services
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Get started with traces and APM
- Learn about data types
- Collect application data
- View and analyze data
- Act on data
- Use APM securely
- Reduce storage
- Managed intake service event API
- Troubleshooting
- Synthetic monitoring
- Get started
- Scripting browser monitors
- Configure lightweight monitors
- Manage monitors
- Work with params and secrets
- Analyze monitor data
- Monitor resources on private networks
- Use the CLI
- Configure a Synthetics project
- Multifactor Authentication for browser monitors
- Configure Synthetics settings
- Grant users access to secured resources
- Manage data retention
- Scale and architect a deployment
- Synthetics Encryption and Security
- Troubleshooting
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- Infrastructure and hosts
- Logs
- Inventory
- Incident management
- Data set quality
- Observability AI Assistant
- Machine learning
- Reference
- Get started
- Elastic Security
- Elastic Security overview
- Security billing dimensions
- Create a Security project
- Elastic Security requirements
- Elastic Security UI
- AI for Security
- Ingest data
- Configure endpoint protection with Elastic Defend
- Manage Elastic Defend
- Endpoints
- Policies
- Trusted applications
- Event filters
- Host isolation exceptions
- Blocklist
- Optimize Elastic Defend
- Event capture and Elastic Defend
- Endpoint protection rules
- Identify antivirus software on your hosts
- Allowlist Elastic Endpoint in third-party antivirus apps
- Elastic Endpoint self-protection features
- Elastic Endpoint command reference
- Endpoint response actions
- Cloud Security
- Explore your data
- Dashboards
- Detection engine overview
- Rules
- Alerts
- Advanced Entity Analytics
- Investigation tools
- Asset management
- Manage settings
- Troubleshooting
- Manage your project
- Changelog
Quickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Agent
editQuickstart: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster with Elastic Agent
editIn this quickstart guide, you’ll learn how to create the Kubernetes resources that are required to monitor your cluster infrastructure.
This new approach requires minimal configuration and provides you with an easy setup to monitor your infrastructure. You no longer need to download, install, or configure the Elastic Agent, everything happens automatically when you run the kubectl command.
The kubectl command installs the standalone Elastic Agent in your Kubernetes cluster, downloads all the Kubernetes resources needed to collect metrics from the cluster, and sends it to Elastic.
Prerequisites
edit- An Elastic Observability Serverless project. To learn more, refer to Create an Observability project.
- A user with the Admin role or higher—required to onboard system logs and metrics. To learn more, refer to Assign user roles and privileges.
- A running Kubernetes cluster.
- Kubectl.
Collect your data
edit- Create a new Elastic Observability Serverless project, or open an existing one.
- In your Elastic Observability Serverless project, go to Add Data.
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Under What do you want to monitor? select Kubernetes, and then select Elastic Agent: Logs & Metrics.
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To install the Elastic Agent on your host, copy and run the install command.
You will use the kubectl command to download a manifest file, inject user’s API key generated by Kibana, and create the Kubernetes resources.
- Go back to the Add Observability Data page. There might be a slight delay before data is ingested. When ready, you will see the message We are monitoring your cluster.
- Click Explore Kubernetes cluster to navigate to dashboards and explore your data.
Visualize your data
editAfter installation is complete and all relevant data is flowing into Elastic, the Visualize your data section allows you to access the Kubernetes Cluster Overview dashboard that can be used to monitor the health of the cluster.
Furthermore, you can access other useful prebuilt dashboards for monitoring Kubernetes resources, for example running pods per namespace, as well as the resources they consume, like CPU and memory.
Refer to Observability overview for a description of other useful features.