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Getting Started with Elastic Stack 8.0

You're reading from   Getting Started with Elastic Stack 8.0 Run powerful and scalable data platforms to search, observe, and secure your organization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569492
Length 474 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: Core Components
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Elastic Stack FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing and Running the Elastic Stack 4. Section 2: Working with the Elastic Stack
5. Chapter 3: Indexing and Searching for Data 6. Chapter 4: Leveraging Insights and Managing Data on Elasticsearch 7. Chapter 5: Running Machine Learning Jobs on Elasticsearch 8. Chapter 6: Collecting and Shipping Data with Beats 9. Chapter 7: Using Logstash to Extract, Transform, and Load Data 10. Chapter 8: Interacting with Your Data on Kibana 11. Chapter 9: Managing Data Onboarding with Elastic Agent 12. Section 3: Building Solutions with the Elastic Stack
13. Chapter 10: Building Search Experiences Using the Elastic Stack 14. Chapter 11: Observing Applications and Infrastructure Using the Elastic Stack 15. Chapter 12: Security Threat Detection and Response Using the Elastic Stack 16. Chapter 13: Architecting Workloads on the Elastic Stack 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Managing Elastic Agent at scale with Fleet

Fleet is a component that's used to manage Elastic Agent configurations across your environment. Fleet is made up of two components:

  • Fleet UI is a Kibana application with a user interface for users to onboard and configure agents, manage the onboarded data, and administer agents across your environment.
  • Fleet Server is a backend component that Elastic Agents from across your environment can connect to, to retrieve agent policies, updates, and management commands.

Fleet Server is a special mode of Elastic Agent and can be deployed centrally alongside your Elastic Stack deployment. You can configure multiple instances of Fleet Server in a load-balanced setup to scale performance and add availability. Fleet Server requires connectivity to the backing Elasticsearch cluster to operate.

The architecture with Elastic Agent and Fleet involved looks as follows:

Figure 9.2 – Architecture with Elastic...

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