An Elastic integration is a collection of assets that defines how to observe a specific product or service with the Elastic Stack. Each integration comes pre-packaged with assets that support your needs and allow you to easily collect, store, and visualize any data from any source.

Elastic offers over 300 turn-key integrations. Choose the integration that best fits your needs:

• Search
• Security
• Observability

You can also browse through the catalogue of Cloud provider integrations:

• AWS
• Azure
• GCP

Ingestion methods

Elastic offers a variety of data ingestion methods:

• Elastic Agent recommended for observability and security use cases.
• Filebeat modules to collect logs.
• Metricbeat modules to collect metrics.
• Logstash to collect and transform your data.
• Web crawler to make your website searchable.
• Data connectors to sync content from a range of third-party databases and object stores.

Refer to the elasticsearch Service documentation for more details about these options.

Get started

If you want to quickly get started, follow these steps:

1. Spin up an Elastic Stack deployment. You can try it out for free on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

2. Install the Elastic Agent. Elastic Agent is a single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host.