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Elastic Ingest Reference Architectures

Elastic Ingest Reference Architectures: other versions:
Ingest architectures
Elastic Agent to Elasticsearch
- Elastic Agent to Elasticsearch: Agent installed
- Elastic Agent to Elasticsearch: APIs for collection
Elastic Agent to Logstash to Elasticsearch
Elastic Agent to proxy to Elasticsearch
Elastic Agent to Elasticsearch with Kafka as middleware message queue
- Elastic Agent to Logstash to Kafka to Logstash to Elasticsearch: Kafka as middleware message queue
- Elastic Agent to Logstash to Kafka to Kafka ES Sink to Elasticsearch: Kafka as middleware message queue
Logstash to Elasticsearch
Elastic air-gapped architectures
- Elastic Agent to Elasticsearch: Air-gapped environment
- Elastic Agent to Logstash: Air-gapped environment

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