Elastic Agent to Elasticsearch: APIs for collection

Image showing {{agent}} collecting data using APIs and sending to {es}
Ingest model
Control path: Elastic Agent to Fleet to Elasticsearch
Data path: Elastic Agent running on a user-managed host to collect data about the external infrastructure through APIs, and then forwarding to {es}
Use when
An Elastic Agent integration exists for software components that expose APIs for data collection
Examples
Cloudflare or any other data sources that exposes API for data retrieval

Process overview ¶

  • Find the integration for your data source. In Kibana, go to Management> Integrations.
  • Enable the integration and set up Elastic Agent.
  • Create a collector VM/container and run Elastic Agent and the integration to scrape the external API. Or, set up the external API to push data to the Elastic Agent running the integration.

For details and next steps, check out the Elastic Agent integrations docs for your data source.