Beats central management will allow users to configure & manage Beats centrally from Kibana. This is a meta issue to group all efforts for the first version of this feature:

Fixes:

• Bug when unenrolling a beats Can't unenroll beats #9452

Tasks:

• Elasticsearch license checking and built-in roles: Beats central management: index templates and built-in roles elasticsearch#30493
  • Need to backport these two PRs to 6.x whenever the rest of Beats management is ready:
    • [X-Pack] Beats centralized management: security role + licensing elasticsearch#30520
    • Documents built-in beats_admin role stack-docs#80
• Beats initial enrollment Beats initial enrollment #7032
• Kibana management UI - kibana repo [Beats Management] APIs kibana#18858
  • [Beats Management] Create beat enrollments screen(s) kibana#20837 Create beat enrollments screen(s)
  • [Beats Management] Create ui adapters kibana#20849 Create ui adapters
  • [Beats Management][Components] table search and action controls kibana#20844 table search and action controls
  • [Beats Management] Beats List Screen kibana#20834 Beats List Screen
  • [Beats Management][Components] Beat table kibana#20845 Shared Beat table
  • [Beats Management] Tag list screen  kibana#20836 Tag list screen
  • [Beats Management][Components] Tags table view kibana#20843 Shared Tags table view
  • [Beats Management] Tag creation screen kibana#20838 Tag creation screen
  • [Beats Management] Beat activity view kibana#20835 Beat activity view
  • [Beats Management] Beat details - Config kibana#20840 Beat details - Config
  • [Beats Management][Components] config creation / view slide in kibana#20846 config creation / view slide in view
  • [Beats Management] Beat details - logs kibana#20842 Beat details - logs

  Tasks currently awaiting efforts from other teams

  • Activity view (awaiting logging UI in EUI)

  Overlay work (tasks that do not impede a working demo/beta)

  • License check
  • user permission check in UI and associated error messaging
• Kibana license checking
• Beats central management manager Add central management service #8263
• Basic telemetry for Beats central management Basic telemetry for Beats central configuration #7979
• Add docs Add docs and edit strings for Beats Central Management #8470