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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569492

Length 474 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Elasticsearch

Concepts

Enterprise Search

Author (1):

Asjad Athick

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

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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...