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## Summary Add Elastic Agent as another way to collect monitoring data. This work is tracked by https://github.com/elastic/observability-docs/issues/2602. There will be additional PRs to address changes required to monitoring docs for other stack components. TBH, it pains me a bit to see how many places users need to go to find info about stack monitoring, but fixing that problem is not in scope for these updates unfortunately. :-/ Please respond to questions addressed to reviewers. ### Checklist Delete any items that are not applicable to this PR. - [x] Any text added follows [EUI's writing guidelines](https://elastic.github.io/eui/#/guidelines/writing), uses sentence case text and includes [i18n support](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/main/packages/kbn-i18n/README.md) ### To Do before merging - [x] Remove questions to reviewers. --------- Co-authored-by: Kevin Lacabane <klacabane@gmail.com>
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[role="xpack"]
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[[configuring-monitoring]]
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= Configure monitoring in {kib}
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<titleabbrev>Configure monitoring</titleabbrev>
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If you enable the {monitor-features} in your cluster, there are a few methods
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available to collect metrics about {kib}:
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* <<monitoring-elastic-agent,{agent} collection>>: Uses a single agent to gather
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logs and metrics. Can be managed from a central location in {fleet}.
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* <<monitoring-metricbeat,{metricbeat} collection>>: Uses a lightweight {beats}
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shipper to gather metrics. May be preferred if you have an existing investment
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in {beats} or are not yet ready to use {agent}.
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* <<monitoring-kibana,Legacy collection>>: Uses internal collectors to gather
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metrics. Not recommended. If you have previously configured legacy collection
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methods, you should migrate to using {agent} or {metricbeat}.
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You can also use {kib} to
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<<monitoring-data,visualize monitoring data from across the {stack}>>.
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To learn about monitoring in general, see
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{ref}/monitor-elasticsearch-cluster.html[Monitor a cluster].
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