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Elastic · Elastic Agent, observability, and security data from the terminal.

$ curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/downloads/elastic-agent | sh
One-liner to try
$ elastic-agent version

Agent pack

Copy into an agent

A markdown-ready setup brief with install, verify, safe starting commands, and guardrails for AI agents.

Open .mdJSON
Readiness
Usable with guardrails · 50/100
Verify
elastic --help
Agent URL
/cli/elastic/agent.md

Quick reference

Install
curl -fsSL https://elastic.co/downloads/elastic-agent | sh
Verify
elastic --help
First command
elastic-agent version
Machine JSON
/cli/elastic.json

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The official CLI from Elastic. Elastic Agent, observability, and security data from the terminal.

Example workflow

1. elastic-agent version

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