Streams
Serverless
Streams is currently in Technical Preview and only available on Elastic Cloud Serverless deployments. This feature may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
Streams provides a single, centralized UI within Kibana that streamlines common tasks, reducing the need to navigate multiple applications or manually configure underlying Elasticsearch components. Key workflows include:
- Extract fields from your documents.
- Change the data retention of a stream.
A Stream directly corresponds to an Elasticsearch data stream (for example, logs-myapp-default). Operations performed in the Streams UI configure that specific data stream.
Streams requires the following Elastic Cloud Serverless roles:
- Admin: ability to manage all Streams.
- Editor/Viewer: limited access, unable to perform all actions.
Access streams in one of the following ways:
From the navigation menu, select Streams.
From Discover, expand a document's details flyout and select Stream or an action associated with the document's data stream. Streams will open filtered to only the selected stream. This only works for documents stored in a data stream.
Use the Overview tab to find key metrics for the selected stream, such as data retention, document count, storage size, and average ingestion.
the Overview tab is made up of the following components:
- Data retention: Your current data retention policy. For more detailed information, refer to the Data Retention tab on the Management page.
- Document count: The current total number of documents in your stream, unrelated to the time range.
- Storage size: The current total storage size of your stream, unrelated to the time range.
- Ingestion: shows the average ingestion per day since the stream was created.
- Dashboards table: quick links to dashboards you've added to the stream.
Use the Dashboards tab to add dashboards to your stream. Dashboards are visualizations that group together important assets for your stream.
Add a dashboard to your stream by selecting it from the list of available dashboards.
Added dashboards are also shown on the Overview tab as quick links.
Use the Manage stream page to interact with and configure your stream in the following ways:
- Extract field: Parse and extract information from log messages into dedicated fields.
- Data retention: Manage how your stream retains data and get insight into data ingestion and storage size.
- Advanced: Review and manually modify the inner workings of your stream.