generated: '2026-08-29'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent
docs:
- https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/fleet/elastic-agent-cmd-options
- https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/opentelemetry/edot-collector
- https://github.com/elastic/elastic-package
- https://github.com/elastic/ecctl
provider: Elastic Observability
providerId: elastic-observability
note: >-
  Elastic ships no single "observability CLI". What exists is a set of first-party binaries, each
  owning one job, and the versions below were read from the GitHub releases API on 2026-08-29 —
  which is also how the abandonment signal on ecctl surfaced.
clis:
- name: elastic-agent
  primary: true
  repo: https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent
  version: v9.5.2
  released: '2026-08-20'
  role: >-
    The single agent that ships logs, metrics, traces and security data to Elastic. As of Stack
    9.5.0 the EDOT Collector is folded into elastic-agent rather than shipped separately, so this
    binary is now also the OpenTelemetry collector that talks to the OTLP paths in this repo's
    OpenAPI.
  install:
  - Download the platform archive from https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elastic-agent
  - Fleet-managed enrollment from Kibana
  - Docker / Kubernetes (DaemonSet) manifests
  commands:
  - install — enroll and install the agent as a service
  - enroll — enroll an installed agent with Fleet
  - run — run the agent in the foreground
  - status — report agent and component health
  - diagnostics — collect a diagnostics bundle
  - inspect — print the resolved configuration
  - upgrade — upgrade the agent to a given version
- name: elastic-package
  primary: false
  repo: https://github.com/elastic/elastic-package
  version: v0.126.1
  released: '2026-08-27'
  role: Build, test and lint Elastic integration packages; spins up a local test stack.
  audience: integration developers, not API consumers
- name: ecctl
  primary: false
  repo: https://github.com/elastic/ecctl
  version: v1.15.0
  released: '2025-06-13'
  role: Elastic Cloud Control — manage Elastic Cloud deployments from the command line.
  note: >-
    Last release 2025-06-13, over fourteen months before this pass. Recorded as a currency signal,
    not as a claim that Elastic has retired it.
- name: apm-server
  primary: false
  repo: https://github.com/elastic/apm-server
  role: >-
    The APM Server binary itself — the process that SERVES the OpenAPI in this repo. Run
    standalone for self-managed deployments; on Elastic Cloud it is managed for you.
  note: >-
    Listed for completeness because it is the server side of this contract, not a client tool.
    No release version recorded here — APM Server ships on the Elastic Stack version train
    (currently 9.5.2), not on its own.