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Get started with system logs

Elastic Stack Serverless

Note

For Observability Serverless projects, the Admin role or higher is required to onboard log data. To learn more, refer to Assign user roles and privileges.

In this guide you’ll learn how to onboard system log data from a machine or server, then observe the data in Discover.

To onboard system log data:

  1. Open an Elastic Observability Serverless project or Elastic Stack deployment.
  2. From the Observability UI, go to Add data.
  3. Under What do you want to monitor?, select Host → Elastic Agent: Logs & Metrics.
  4. Follow the in-product steps to auto-detect your logs and install and configure the Elastic Agent.

After the agent is installed and successfully streaming log data, you can view the data in the UI:

  1. From the navigation menu, go to Discover.
  2. Select All logs from the Data views menu. The view shows all log datasets. Notice you can add fields, change the view, expand a document to see details, and perform other actions to explore your data.

Now that you’ve added logs and explored your data, learn how to onboard other types of data:

To onboard other types of data, select Add Data from the main menu.