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[Fleet] Telemetry for standalone agents #91037

Open mostlyjason opened 3 years ago

mostlyjason commented 3 years ago

Describe the feature: We have several potential projects to improve the experience for Elastic agents in standalone mode. We expect this mode to be used particularly in environments with IaaC, Kubernetes, and external configuration management solutions like Ansible. Data would help us know how highly to prioritize this work and the impact our efforts have on increasing adoption. It'd be helpful to know the number of standalone agents that are active in each cluster.

As one potential solution, could we use the agent monitoring data to determine the number of unique agent IDs? We can subtract the number of agents enrolled in Fleet to estimate the number of standalone agents. This would require the standalone agents to have monitoring enabled. Our in-app instructions have it enabled by default. We should also consider possible impact on cluster performance for running this query.

elasticmachine commented 3 years ago

Pinging @elastic/fleet (Team:Fleet)