Elastic Agent

Plans and prices

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Cloud trial

Elastic Cloud offers a free 14-day trial with one hosted deployment and three Serverless projects.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

Deployment platforms

The download page provides Elastic Agent packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS architectures.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

Fleet management

Fleet provides a web-based UI to centrally add and manage agents and integrations at scale.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

Integration catalog

Elastic offers over 300 turn-key integrations covering search, security, observability, AWS, Azure, and GCP.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

Integrations

Elastic Agent and Fleet include out-of-the-box dashboards, visualizations, and ingest pipelines for popular services and platforms.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

OpenTelemetry package

The Elastic Agent package includes a separate otelcol binary that runs OpenTelemetry Collector components.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

Pricing model

Elastic Agent's product page states that customers pay for the resources they need and are not charged by ingest.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

Runtime operations

Fleet can deploy upgrades and policies across thousands of agents at runtime and track agent status, configuration, overhead, processes, and versions.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

Security and compliance

Elastic says its services are independently audited and certified for standards including FedRAMP High and Moderate, PCI DSS, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, SOC 3, and HIPAA.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

Support resources

Elastic directs Elastic Agent users to its documentation and community forum for questions and help.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

Target users

Elastic describes Elastic Agent use across search, observability, and security use cases for infrastructure, applications, and mobile-device telemetry.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

Trial limits

During the trial, hosted deployments are limited to one active deployment, 4 GB RAM per availability zone for Elasticsearch data nodes, and up to two availability zones.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

Unified collection

Elastic Agent collects logs, metrics, traces, availability, security, and other data from each host through one unified agent.elastic.co · read 1 Oct 2026

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