Ingestion options

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 Yes 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 ¶

The high-level architecture is shown below.

Ingest options