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Scaling with remote configuration

What you learned in Module 2

  • How Fleet Management works — collectors register, poll for config, send health data
  • Access tokens authenticate collectors with Fleet Management
  • Attributes organize your fleet using key-value pairs
  • Health monitoring provides centralized visibility into fleet health

In this module, you’ll learn to configure collectors remotely at scale:

  • The scaling challenge — Why manual configuration doesn’t work
  • Configuration pipelines — Creating and managing remote configs
  • Attribute matching — Targeting pipelines to specific collectors
  • Configuration strategies — Balancing local and remote config
  • Safety safeguards — Experimenting with confidence
  • Hands-on practice — Categorize your fleet with remote attributes

Estimated time

20-25 minutes

Script

You’ve mastered health monitoring—you can see your fleet, check collector status, and understand what’s happening across your infrastructure. Now let’s tackle the real power of Fleet Management: scaling your configuration.

This module is about going from managing collectors one at a time to managing them as a fleet. You’ll learn how to sync configurations to dozens or hundreds of collectors without touching individual machines.

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