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title: Elastic integrations
description: An Elastic integration is a collection of assets that defines how to observe a specific product or service with the Elastic Stack. Each integration comes...
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/integrations
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# Elastic integrations

An Elastic integration is a collection of assets that defines how to observe a specific product or service with the Elastic Stack. Each integration comes pre-packaged with assets that support your needs and allow you to easily collect, store, and visualize any data from any source.
Elastic offers over 300 turn-key integrations. Choose the integration that best fits your needs:
- [Search](https://www.elastic.co/integrations/data-integrations?solution=search)
- [Security](https://www.elastic.co/integrations/data-integrations?solution=security)
- [Observability](https://www.elastic.co/integrations/data-integrations?solution=observability)

You can also browse through the catalogue of Cloud provider integrations:
- [AWS](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/integrations/aws)
- [Azure](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/integrations/azure)
- [GCP](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/integrations/google-cloud-intro)


## Ingestion methods

Elastic offers a variety of data ingestion methods:
- [Elastic Agent](https://www.elastic.co/elastic-agent) recommended for observability and security use cases.
- [Agentless integrations](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/current/agentless-integrations.html) to ingest data while avoiding orchestration, management, and maintenance.
- [Filebeat modules](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-modules-overview.html) to collect logs.
- [Metricbeat modules](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-modules.html) to collect metrics.
- [Logstash](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/index.html) to collect and transform your data.
- [Web crawler](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/crawler.html) to make your website searchable.
- [Data connectors](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/current/connectors.html) to sync content from a range of third-party databases and object stores.

Refer to the [Ingest tools overview](https://staging-website.elastic.co/docs/manage-data/ingest/tools) for more details about these options.

## Get started

If you want to quickly get started, follow these steps:
1. Spin up an Elastic Stack deployment. You can [try it out for free](https://www.elastic.co/cloud/elasticsearch-service/signup?page=docs&placement=docs-body) on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
2. Install the Elastic Agent. [Elastic Agent](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/current/logs-metrics-get-started.html) is a single, unified way to add monitoring for logs, metrics, and other types of data to a host.
