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Elasticsearch Ingest 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 Logstash (for enrichment) to Elasticsearch
    • Elastic Agent to Logstash to Elasticsearch: Logstash Persistent Queue (PQ) for buffering
    • Elastic Agent to Logstash to Elasticsearch: Logstash as a proxy
    • Elastic Agent to Logstash for routing to multiple Elasticsearch clusters and additional destinations
  • 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
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