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Create an agent policy without using the UIedit
For use cases where you want to provide a default agent policy or support automation, you can set up an agent policy without using the Fleet UI. To do this, either use the Fleet API or add a preconfigured policy to Kibana:
Option 1. Create an agent policy with the APIedit
curl -u <username>:<password> --request POST \ --url <kibana_url>/api/fleet/agent_policies?sys_monitoring=true \ --header 'content-type: application/json' \ --header 'kbn-xsrf: true' \ --data '{"name":"Agent policy 1","namespace":"default","monitoring_enabled":["logs","metrics"]}'
In this API call:
-
sys_monitoring=true
adds the system integration to the agent policy -
monitoring_enabled
turns on Elastic Agent monitoring
For more information, refer to Kibana Fleet APIs.
Option 2. Create agent policies with preconfigurationedit
Add preconfigured policies to kibana.yml
config.
For example, the following example adds a Fleet Server policy for self-managed setup:
xpack.fleet.packages: - name: fleet_server version: latest xpack.fleet.agentPolicies: - name: Fleet Server policy id: fleet-server-policy namespace: default package_policies: - name: fleet_server-1 package: name: fleet_server
The following example creates an agent policy for general use:
xpack.fleet.packages: - name: system version: latest - name: elastic_agent version: latest xpack.fleet.agentPolicies: - name: Agent policy 1 id: agent-policy-1 namespace: default monitoring_enabled: - logs - metrics package_policies: - name: system-1 id: default-system package: name: system
For more information about preconfiguration settings, refer to the Kibana documentation.