Overview and prerequisites

Before building an integration, you should have an understanding of the following Elastic Stack concepts:

• Data streams: Logic abstraction for time-series data.
• Ingest pipelines: Preprocessing and enrichment of incoming data.
• Mappings: Define the structure and types of your data.
• Package specification to understand the required structure and fields for your integration package.

• Install the elastic-package CLI tool. Using elastic-package is recommended for integration maintainers as it provides crucial utilities and scripts for building out integrations.
• Clone the integrations repository if you plan to contribute to official packages.