- Elastic Cloud Enterprise - Elastic Cloud on your Infrastructure: other versions:
- What is Elastic Cloud Enterprise?
- Getting started
- Planning your installation
- Preparing your environment
- Installing Elastic Cloud Enterprise
- Configuring your installation
- Securing your installation
- Monitoring your installation
- Administering your installation
- Getting started with deployments
- Administering deployments
- Change your deployment configuration
- Stop routing requests or pause nodes
- Stop a deployment
- Restart a deployment
- Delete a deployment
- Access the Elasticsearch API
- Work with snapshots
- Upgrade versions
- Editing your user settings
- Configure Beats and Logstash with Cloud ID
- Keep your clusters healthy
- Secure your clusters
- Reset the password for the
elastic
user - Manage users and roles in X-Pack
- Manage users and roles in Shield
- Configure the Java Transport client
- Filter IP traffic
- Secure your settings
- Secure your 7.x clusters with LDAP or Active Directory
- Secure your 5.x and 6.x clusters with LDAP or Active Directory
- Secure your clusters with SAML
- Reset the password for the
- Manage your Kibana instance
- Manage your APM Server
- Enable Monitoring (formerly Marvel)
- Enable Graph (versions before 5.0)
- Connect to your cluster
- Enable cross-cluster search
- Troubleshooting
- RESTful API
- Using the API
- API examples
- A first API call: What deployments are there?
- Create a first deployment: Just an Elasticsearch cluster
- Applying a new plan: Resize and add high availability
- Applying a new plan: Checking on progress
- Applying a new deployment configuration: Upgrade
- Enable more stack features: Add Kibana to a deployment
- Dipping a toe into platform automation: Generate a roles token
- Customize your deployment
- Remove unwanted deployment templates and instance configurations
- Secure your settings
- API reference
- Authentication
- Clusters - Apm - CRUD
- Clusters - Apm - CRUD - Configuration
- Clusters - Apm - Commands
- Search clusters
- Restart cluster
- Resynchronize cluster
- Shut down cluster
- Upgrade cluster
- Move instances (advanced)
- Start all instances
- Stop all instances
- Start maintenance mode all instances
- Stop maintenance mode all instances
- Move instances
- Start instances
- Stop instances
- Start maintenance mode
- Stop maintenance mode
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - CRUD
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - CRUD - Configuration
- Get cross-cluster search clusters
- Get remote clusters for cross-cluster search
- Set remote clusters for cross-cluster search
- Get cluster curation settings
- Update cluster curation settings
- Set settings overrides (all instances)
- Set settings overrides
- Get settings from this cluster’s keystore
- Add or remove settings from the cluster keystore
- Set cluster name
- Get cluster metadata
- Set cluster metadata
- Get cluster metadata settings
- Update cluster metadata settings
- Cancel monitoring
- Set monitoring
- Get plan
- Update plan
- Migrate plan
- Get plan activity
- Cancel pending plan
- Get pending plan
- Set legacy security settings
- Get cluster snapshot settings
- Update cluster snapshot settings
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - Commands
- Search clusters
- Restart cluster
- Resynchronize cluster
- Shut down cluster
- Take snapshot
- Move instances (advanced)
- Start all instances
- Stop all instances
- Start maintenance mode all instances
- Stop maintenance mode all instances
- Move instances
- Start instances
- Stop instances
- Start maintenance mode
- Stop maintenance mode
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - Proxy
- Clusters - Elasticsearch - Support
- Clusters - Kibana - CRUD
- Clusters - Kibana - CRUD - Configuration
- Clusters - Kibana - Commands
- Search clusters
- Restart cluster
- Resynchronize cluster
- Shut down cluster
- Upgrade cluster
- Move instances (advanced)
- Start all instances
- Stop all instances
- Start maintenance mode all instances
- Stop maintenance mode all instances
- Move instances
- Start instances
- Stop instances
- Start maintenance mode
- Stop maintenance mode
- Clusters - Kibana - Proxy
- Clusters - Search
- Deployments - IP Filtering - CRUD
- Deployments - Notes
- Platform
- Platform - Allocators
- Get allocators
- Search allocators
- Delete allocator
- Get allocator
- Resynchronize allocator
- Move clusters
- Move clusters by type
- Start maintenance mode
- Stop maintenance mode
- Get allocator metadata
- Set allocator metadata
- Delete allocator metadata item
- Set allocator metadata item
- Get allocator settings
- Update allocator settings
- Set allocator settings
- Platform - Configuration - Instances - CRUD
- Platform - Configuration - Security
- Platform - Configuration - Security Deployment
- Platform - Configuration - Security Realms
- Platform - Configuration - TLS
- Platform - Constructors
- Platform - License
- Platform - Repository - CRUD
- Platform - Runners
- Platform - configuration - Store
- Platform - proxies
- Stack - Instance Types - CRUD
- Stack - Versions - CRUD
- Templates - Deployments
- Definitions
AllocatedInstancePlansInfo
AllocatedInstanceStatus
AllocatorBuildInfo
AllocatorCapacity
AllocatorCapacityMemory
AllocatorHealthStatus
AllocatorInfo
AllocatorMoveRequest
AllocatorOverview
AllocatorSettings
AllocatorZoneInfo
ApmConfiguration
ApmCrudResponse
ApmInfo
ApmPlan
ApmPlanControlConfiguration
ApmPlanInfo
ApmPlansInfo
ApmSettings
ApmSubInfo
ApmSystemSettings
ApmTopologyElement
ApmsInfo
AvailableAuthenticationMethods
BasicFailedReply
BasicFailedReplyElement
BoolQuery
CapacityConstraintsResource
ChangeSourceInfo
ClusterCommandResponse
ClusterCredentials
ClusterCrudResponse
ClusterCurationSettings
ClusterCurationSpec
ClusterInfo
ClusterInstanceConfigurationInfo
ClusterInstanceDiskInfo
ClusterInstanceInfo
ClusterInstanceMemoryInfo
ClusterLicenseInfo
ClusterMetadataCpuResourcesSettings
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ClusterMetadataResourcesSettings
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ClusterPlanMigrationResponse
ClusterPlanStepInfo
ClusterPlanStepLogMessageInfo
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryDefault
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryInfo
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryReference
ClusterSnapshotRepositoryStatic
ClusterSnapshotRequest
ClusterSnapshotResponse
ClusterSnapshotRetention
ClusterSnapshotSettings
ClusterSystemAlert
ClusterTopologyInfo
ClusterUpgradeInfo
ClustersInfo
CompatibleNodeTypesResource
CompatibleVersionResource
ConfigStoreOption
ConfigStoreOptionData
ConfigStoreOptionList
ConstructorHealthStatus
ConstructorInfo
ConstructorOverview
CreateApmInCreateElasticsearchRequest
CreateApmRequest
CreateElasticsearchClusterRequest
CreateKibanaInCreateElasticsearchRequest
CreateKibanaRequest
CrossClusterSearchClusters
CrossClusterSearchInfo
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DeploymentTemplateInfo
DeploymentTemplateReference
DiscreteSizes
ElasticsearchClusterBlockingIssueElement
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ElasticsearchClusterInstanceSettingsOverrides
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ElasticsearchClusterRole
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ElasticsearchClusterTopologyElement
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ElasticsearchCuration
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ElasticsearchMasterInfo
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ElasticsearchReplicaElement
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IdResponse
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KibanaSubClusterInfo
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LdapGroupSearch
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LdapSecurityRealmRoleMappingRule
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LdapSettings
LdapUserSearch
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LicenseInfo
LicenseObject
ListEnrollmentTokenElement
ListEnrollmentTokenReply
LoginRequest
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MatchAllQuery
MatchNoneQuery
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MetadataItem
MetadataItemValue
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Note
Notes
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SecurityDeployment
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StackVersionApmConfig
StackVersionArchiveProcessingError
StackVersionArchiveProcessingResult
StackVersionConfig
StackVersionConfigPost
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StackVersionElasticsearchConfig
StackVersionInstanceCapacityConstraint
StackVersionKibanaConfig
StackVersionMetadata
StackVersionNodeType
StackVersionTemplateFileHash
StackVersionTemplateInfo
TargetElasticsearchCluster
TermQuery
TiebreakerTopologyElement
TlsPublicCertChain
TokenResponse
TopologySize
TransientApmPlanConfiguration
TransientElasticsearchPlanConfiguration
TransientKibanaPlanConfiguration
UsageStats
- Script reference
- Release notes
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.2.3
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.2.2
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.2.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.2.0
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.1.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.1.0
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.0.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 2.0.0
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.5
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.4
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.3
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.2
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.1.0
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.0.2
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.0.1
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise 1.0.0
- Limitations and known problems
- What’s new with the Elastic Stack
- Elastic Stack 7.5.1 released
- Elastic Stack 7.5.0 released
- Elastic Stack 7.4.2 released
- Elastic Stack 7.4.1 released
- Elastic Stack 7.4.0 released
- Elastic Stack 7.3.2 released
- Elastic Stack 7.3.1 released
- Elastic Stack 7.3.0 released
- Elastic Stack 7.2.1 and 6.8.2 released
- Elastic Stack 7.2.0 released
- Elastic Stack 7.1.1 released
- Elastic Stack 7.1.0 released
- Elastic Stack 7.0.1 released
- Elastic Stack 7.0.0 released
- Elastic Stack 6.8.6 released
- Elastic Stack 6.8.5 released
- Elastic Stack 6.8.4 released
- Elastic Stack 6.8.3 released
- Elastic Stack 6.8.1 released
- Elastic Stack 6.8.0 released
- Elastic Stack 6.7.2 released
- Elastic Stack 6.7.1 released
- Elastic Stack 6.7.0 released
- Elastic Stack 6.6.2 released
- Elastic Stack 6.6.0 released
- Elastic Stack 6.5.4 released
- Elastic Stack 5.6.14 and 6.5.3 released
- Elastic Stack 6.5.2 released
- Elastic Stack 6.5.1 released
- Elastic Stack 6.5.0 released
- Elastic Stack 5.6.13 and 6.4.3 released
- Elastic Stack 5.6.11 and 6.4.0 released
- Elastic Stack 6.3.2 released
- Elastic Stack 6.3.1 released
- Known issue affecting 5.6.10 to 6.3.0 upgrades
- Elastic Stack 5.6.10 and 6.3.0 released
- About this product
It is time to say goodbye: This version of Elastic Cloud Enterprise has reached end-of-life (EOL) and is no longer supported.
The documentation for this version is no longer being maintained. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Configure Beats and Logstash with Cloud ID
editConfigure Beats and Logstash with Cloud ID
editThe Cloud ID reduces the number of steps required to start sending data from Beats or Logstash to your hosted Elasticsearch cluster on Elastic Cloud Enterprise. Because we made it easier to send data, you can start exploring visualizations in Kibana on Elastic Cloud Enterprise that much more quickly.

The Cloud ID works by assigning a unique ID to your hosted Elasticsearch cluster on Elastic Cloud Enterprise. All deployments that support the Cloud ID automatically get one. Deployments running version 5.x and later are all supported, including ones that existed before we introduced the Cloud ID.
You include your Cloud ID along with your Elastic Cloud Enterprise user credentials (defined in cloud.auth
) when you run Beats or Logstash locally, and then let Elastic Cloud Enterprise handle all of the remaining connection details to send the data to your hosted cluster on Elastic Cloud Enterprise safely and securely.

What are Beats and Logstash?
editNot sure why you need Beats or Logstash? Here’s what they do:
- Beats is our open source platform for single-purpose data shippers. The purpose of Beats is to help you gather data from different sources and to centralize the data by shipping it to Elasticsearch. Beats install as lightweight agents and ship data from hundreds or thousands of machines to your hosted Elasticsearch cluster on Elastic Cloud Enterprise. If you want more processing muscle, Beats can also ship to Logstash for transformation and parsing before the data gets stored in Elasticsearch.
- Logstash is an open source, server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from a multitude of sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to your favorite place where you stash things, here your hosted Elasticsearch cluster on Elastic Cloud Enterprise. Logstash supports a variety of inputs that pull in events from a multitude of common sources — logs, metrics, web applications, data stores, and various AWS services — all in continuous, streaming fashion.
Before you begin
editTo use the Cloud ID, you need:
- A deployment with an Elasticsearch cluster on version 5.x or later to send data to.
- Beats or Logstash version 6.x or later, installed locally wherever you want to send data from.
-
To configure Beats or Logstash, you need:
- The unique Cloud ID for your deployment, shown when you create your deployment or available from the deployment overview page.
-
A user ID and password that has permission to send data to your cluster.
In our examples, we use the
elastic
superuser that every version 5.x Elasticsearch cluster comes with. The password for theelastic
user is provided when you create a deployment (and can also be reset if you forget it). On a production system, you should adapt these examples by creating a user that can write to and access only the minimally required indices. For each Beat, review the specific feature and role table, similar to the one in Metricbeat documentation.
Configure Beats with your Cloud ID
editThe following example shows how you can send operational data from Metricbeat to Elastic Cloud Enterprise by using the Cloud ID. Any of the available Beats will work, but we had to pick one for this example.
For others, you can learn more about getting started with each Beat.
To get started with Metricbeat and Elastic Cloud Enterprise:
- Log into the Cloud UI.
-
Create a new deployment and copy down the password for the
elastic
user and the Cloud ID information.Or you can use an existing deployment. The unique Cloud ID is shown on the deployment overview page.
- Set up the Beat of your choice, such as Metricbeat version 6.6.2.
-
Configure the Beat output to send to Elastic Cloud.
Make sure you replace the values for
cloud.id
andcloud.auth
with your own information. - Open Kibana and explore!
Metricbeat creates an index pattern in Kibana with defined fields, searches, visualizations, and dashboards that you can start exploring. Look for information related to system metrics, such as CPU usage, utilization rates for memory and disk, and details for processes.
Configure Logstash with your Cloud ID
editThe following example shows how you can send operational data with the Cloud ID from Logstash to an Elasticsearch cluster hosted on Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
Cloud ID applies only when a Logstash module is enabled, otherwise specifying Cloud ID has no effect. Cloud ID applies to data that gets sent via the module, to runtime metrics sent via X-Pack monitoring, and to the endpoint used by X-Pack central management features of Logstash, unless explicit overrides to X-Pack settings are specified in logstash.yml
.
To get started with Logstash and Elastic Cloud Enterprise:
- Log into the Cloud UI.
-
Create a new deployment and copy down the password for the
elastic
user and the Cloud ID information.Or you can also use an existing deployment. The unique Cloud ID is shown on the deployment overview page.
- Download and unpack Logstash version 6.6.2.
-
Modify the logstash.yml configuration file for Elastic Cloud Enterprise to add your user name and password.
Make sure you replace the values for
cloud.id
andcloud.auth
with your own information. - Open Kibana and explore!
Logstash creates an index pattern in Kibana with defined fields, searches, visualizations, and dashboards for events that you can explore.
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