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-# Elastic Cloud
-
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-# Elastic Common Schema
-
-Elastic Common Schema (ECS) defines a common set of fields for ingesting data into Elasticsearch.
-For field details and usage information, refer to [](ecs://reference/index.md).
-
-ECS loggers are plugins for your favorite logging libraries, which help you to format your logs into ECS-compatible JSON. Check out [](ecs://reference/index.md).
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-This section contains reference information for Elasticsearch and index management features, including:
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-* Settings
-* Security roles and privileges
-* Index lifecycle actions
-* Mappings
-* Command line tools
-* Curator
-* Clients
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-Elasticsearch also provides REST APIs that are used by the UI components and can be called directly to configure and access Elasticsearch features.
-Refer to [Elasticsearch API](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch) and [Elasticsearch Serverless API](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch-serverless).
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