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Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Elastic Agents API

Elastic Agents APIs enable you to manage Elastic Agents, including retrieving agent information, managing agent lifecycle, handling file uploads, and initiating agent setup.

Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Elastic Agents API is one of 132 APIs that Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Elastic Agents. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.

This API exposes 18 operations across 14 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{kibana_url}.

18 operations 14 paths 2 schemas 2 DELETE9 GET6 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
Base URL
https://{elasticsearch_endpoint}
Authentication
API Key, HTTP Basic
Contact
Kibana Team
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) Elastic Agents API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (apiKeyAuth). It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • apiKeyAuth — These APIs use key-based authentication. You must create an API key and use the encoded value in the request header. For example: Authorization: ApiKey base64A…

Paths & Operations 18

Across 14 paths, the API surfaces 18 operations — 2 DELETE, 9 GET, 6 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Elastic Agents 18

Elastic Agents APIs enable you to manage Elastic Agents, including retrieving agent information, managing agent lifecycle, handling file uploads, and initiating agent setup.

GET
/api/fleet/agent_status/data
Get incoming agent data
get-fleet-agent-status-data 4 params → 200400
GET
/api/fleet/agents
Get agents
get-fleet-agents 14 params → 200400
POST
/api/fleet/agents
Get agents by action ids
post-fleet-agents 1 param body → 200400
DELETE
/api/fleet/agents/{agentId}
Delete an agent
delete-fleet-agents-agentid 2 params → 200400404
GET
/api/fleet/agents/{agentId}
Get an agent
get-fleet-agents-agentid 2 params → 200400404
PUT
/api/fleet/agents/{agentId}
Update an agent by ID
put-fleet-agents-agentid 2 params body → 200400404
GET
/api/fleet/agents/{agentId}/effective_config
Get an agent's effective config
get-fleet-agents-agentid-effective-config 1 param → 200400
POST
/api/fleet/agents/{agentId}/migrate
Migrate a single agent
post-fleet-agents-agentid-migrate 2 params body → 200400
POST
/api/fleet/agents/{agentId}/privilege_level_change
Change agent privilege level
post-fleet-agents-agentid-privilege-level-change 2 params body → 200400
GET
/api/fleet/agents/{agentId}/uploads
Get agent uploads
get-fleet-agents-agentid-uploads 1 param → 200400
GET
/api/fleet/agents/available_versions
Get available agent versions
get-fleet-agents-available-versions → 200400
POST
/api/fleet/agents/bulk_migrate
Migrate multiple agents
post-fleet-agents-bulk-migrate 1 param body → 200400
POST
/api/fleet/agents/bulk_privilege_level_change
Bulk change agent privilege level
post-fleet-agents-bulk-privilege-level-change 1 param body → 200400
DELETE
/api/fleet/agents/files/{fileId}
Delete an uploaded file
delete-fleet-agents-files-fileid 2 params → 200400
GET
/api/fleet/agents/files/{fileId}/{fileName}
Get an uploaded file
get-fleet-agents-files-fileid-filename 2 params → 200400
GET
/api/fleet/agents/setup
Get agent setup info
get-fleet-agents-setup → 200400
POST
/api/fleet/agents/setup
Initiate Fleet setup
post-fleet-agents-setup 1 param → 200400
GET
/api/fleet/agents/tags
Get agent tags
get-fleet-agents-tags 2 params → 200400

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Kibana_HTTP_APIs_action_message_response (1 property), Kibana_HTTP_APIs_action_id_response (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Kibana_HTTP_APIs_action_id_response
object
1 property 1 required
Kibana_HTTP_APIs_action_message_response
object
1 property 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

elk-stack-elastic-agents-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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