Elastic Cloud connection

To access your data in Elastic Cloud, create a connection asset for it.

Elastic Cloud is a serverless solution that offers the use of the Elasticsearch engine fully managed by a cloud provider.

Supported versions

Elasticsearch service version 8.

Note:

Elasticsearch version 8.15.0 is not supported. If you are on version 8.15.0, upgrade to version 8.15.2. For more information, see Elasticsearch release notes.

Create a connection to Elastic Cloud

To create the connection asset, you need to choose one of the connection endpoint types:

URL: the URL to access Elastic Cloud
Cloud ID: this ID is from the Elastic Cloud web console

For credentials, choose one of the following methods:

Username and password
API key

You can also enable:

SSL certificate

For Credentials and Certificates, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.

Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform

In a project: Click Assets > New asset > Prepare data > Connect to a data source. See Adding a connection to a project.
In the Platform assets catalog: Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.

Next step: Add data assets from the connection

See Add data from a connection in a project.

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance

This connection can be used on a FIPS-enabled cluster (FIPS tolerant); however, it is not FIPS-compliant.

Elastic Cloud setup

Set up Elastic Cloud

Restrictions

For Elastic Cloud versions earlier than version 7, read is limited to 10,000 rows.

Running SQL statements

To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Elastic Cloud Guide for SQL for the correct syntax.

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Parent topic: Supported connections