Reference YAMLedit

The Elastic Agent installation includes an elastic-agent.reference.yml file that describes all the settings available in a standalone configuration.

This file is included here for your convenience.

###################### Agent Configuration Example #########################

# This file is an example configuration file highlighting only the most common
# options. The elastic-agent.reference.yml file from the same directory contains all the
# supported options with more comments. You can use it as a reference.

######################################
# Fleet configuration
######################################
outputs:
  default:
    type: elasticsearch
    hosts: [127.0.0.1:9200]
    api-key: "example-key"
    # username: "elastic"
    # password: "changeme"

inputs:
    # Each input in a policy must have a unique value for the id key.
  - id: unique-system-metrics-id
    type: system/metrics

    # Namespace name must conform to the naming conventions for Elasticsearch indices, cannot contain dashes (-), and cannot exceed 100 bytes
    # For index naming restrictions, see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-create-index.html#indices-create-api-path-params
    data_stream.namespace: default
    use_output: default
    streams:
      - metricset: cpu
        # Dataset name must conform to the naming conventions for Elasticsearch indices, cannot contain dashes (-), and cannot exceed 100 bytes
        data_stream.dataset: system.cpu
      - metricset: memory
        data_stream.dataset: system.memory
      - metricset: network
        data_stream.dataset: system.network
      - metricset: filesystem
        data_stream.dataset: system.filesystem

# management:
#   # Mode of management, the Elastic Agent support two modes of operation:
#   #
#   # local: The Elastic Agent will expect to find the inputs configuration in the local file.
#   #
#   # Default is local.
#   mode: "local"

# fleet:
#   access_api_key: ""
#   kibana:
#     # kibana minimal configuration
#     hosts: ["localhost:5601"]
#     ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]

#     # optional values
#     #protocol: "https"
#     #service_token: "example-token"
#     #path: ""
#     #ssl.verification_mode: full
#     #ssl.supported_protocols: [TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2]
#     #ssl.cipher_suites: []
#     #ssl.curve_types: []
#   reporting:
#     # Reporting threshold indicates how many events should be kept in-memory before reporting them to fleet.
#     #reporting_threshold: 10000
#     # Frequency used to check the queue of events to be sent out to fleet.
#     #reporting_check_frequency_sec: 30

# agent.download:
#   # source of the artifacts, requires elastic like structure and naming of the binaries
#   # e.g /windows-x86.zip
#   sourceURI: "https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/"
#   # path to the directory containing downloaded packages
#   target_directory: "${path.data}/downloads"
#   # timeout for downloading package
#   timeout: 120s
#   # file path to a public key used for verifying downloaded artifacts
#   # if not file is present agent will try to load public key from elastic.co website.
#   pgpfile: "${path.data}/elastic.pgp"
#   # install_path describes the location of installed packages/programs. It is also used
#   # for reading program specifications.
#   install_path: "${path.data}/install"

# agent.process:
#   # timeout for creating new processes. when process is not successfully created by this timeout
#   # start operation is considered a failure
#   spawn_timeout: 30s
#   # timeout for stopping processes. when process is not stopped by this timeout then the process.
#   # is force killed
#   stop_timeout: 30s

# agent.grpc:
#   # listen address for the GRPC server that spawned processes connect back to.
#   address: localhost
#   # port for the GRPC server that spawned processes connect back to.
#   port: 6789

# agent.retry:
#   # Enabled determines whether retry is possible. Default is false.
#   enabled: true
#   # RetriesCount specifies number of retries. Default is 3.
#   # Retry count of 1 means it will be retried one time after one failure.
#   retriesCount: 3
#   # Delay specifies delay in ms between retries. Default is 30s
#   delay: 30s
#   # MaxDelay specifies maximum delay in ms between retries. Default is 300s
#   maxDelay: 5m
#   # Exponential determines whether delay is treated as exponential.
#   # With 30s delay and 3 retries: 30, 60, 120s
#   # Default is false
#   exponential: false

# agent.monitoring:
#   # enabled turns on monitoring of running processes
#   enabled: false
#   # enables log monitoring
#   logs: false
#   # enables metrics monitoring
#   metrics: false
#   # exposes /debug/pprof/ endpoints
#   # recommended that these endpoints are only enabled if the monitoring endpoint is set to localhost
#   pprof.enabled: false
#   # exposes agent metrics using http, by default sockets and named pipes are used
#   http:
#       # enables http endpoint
#       enabled: false
#       # The HTTP endpoint will bind to this hostname, IP address, unix socket or named pipe.
#       # When using IP addresses, it is recommended to only use localhost.
#       host: localhost
#       # Port on which the HTTP endpoint will bind. Default is 0 meaning feature is disabled.
#       port: 6791
#       # Metrics buffer endpoint
#       buffer.enabled: false

# # Allow fleet to reload its configuration locally on disk.
# # Notes: Only specific process configuration and external input configurations will be reloaded.
# agent.reload:
#   # enabled configure the Elastic Agent to reload or not the local configuration.
#   #
#   # Default is true
#   enabled: true

#   # period define how frequent we should look for changes in the configuration.
#   period: 10s

# Logging

# There are four options for the log output: file, stderr, syslog, eventlog
# The file output is the default.

# Sets log level. The default log level is info.
# Available log levels are: error, warning, info, debug
#agent.logging.level: info

# Enable debug output for selected components. To enable all selectors use ["*"]
# Other available selectors are "beat", "publish", "service"
# Multiple selectors can be chained.
#agent.logging.selectors: [ ]

# Send all logging output to stderr. The default is false.
agent.logging.to_stderr: true

# Send all logging output to syslog. The default is false.
#agent.logging.to_syslog: false

# Send all logging output to Windows Event Logs. The default is false.
#agent.logging.to_eventlog: false

# If enabled, Elastic-Agent periodically logs its internal metrics that have changed
# in the last period. For each metric that changed, the delta from the value at
# the beginning of the period is logged. Also, the total values for
# all non-zero internal metrics are logged on shutdown. This setting is also passed
# to beats running under the agent. The default is true.
#agent.logging.metrics.enabled: true

# The period after which to log the internal metrics. The default is 30s.
#agent.logging.metrics.period: 30s

# Logging to rotating files. Set logging.to_files to false to disable logging to
# files.
#agent.logging.to_files: true
#agent.logging.files:
  # Configure the path where the logs are written. The default is the logs directory
  # under the home path (the binary location).
  #path: /var/log/elastic-agent

  # The name of the files where the logs are written to.
  #name: elastic-agent

  # Configure log file size limit. If limit is reached, log file will be
  # automatically rotated
  #rotateeverybytes: 10485760 # = 10MB

  # Number of rotated log files to keep. Oldest files will be deleted first.
  #keepfiles: 7

  # The permissions mask to apply when rotating log files. The default value is 0600.
  # Must be a valid Unix-style file permissions mask expressed in octal notation.
  #permissions: 0600

  # Enable log file rotation on time intervals in addition to size-based rotation.
  # Intervals must be at least 1s. Values of 1m, 1h, 24h, 7*24h, 30*24h, and 365*24h
  # are boundary-aligned with minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years as
  # reported by the local system clock. All other intervals are calculated from the
  # Unix epoch. Defaults to disabled.
  #interval: 0

  # Rotate existing logs on startup rather than appending to the existing
  # file. Defaults to true.
  # rotateonstartup: true

# Set to true to log messages in JSON format.
#agent.logging.json: false

# Providers

# Providers supply the key/values pairs that are used for variable substitution
# and conditionals. Each provider's keys are automatically prefixed with the name
# of the provider.

#providers:

# Agent provides information about the running agent.
#  agent:
#    enabled: true

# Docker provides inventory information from Docker.
#  docker:
#    enabled: true
#    host: "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
#    cleanup_timeout: 60

# Env providers information about the running environment.
#  env:
#    enabled: true

# Host provides information about the current host.
#  host:
#    enabled: true

# Local provides custom keys to use as variable.
#  local:
#    enabled: true
#    vars:
#      foo: bar

# Local dynamic allows you to define multiple key/values to generate multiple configurations.
#  local_dynamic:
#    enabled: true
#    items:
#      - vars:
#          my_var: key1
#      - vars:
#          my_var: key2
#      - vars:
#          my_var: key3