diff --git a/serverless/pages/ingest-your-data.asciidoc b/serverless/pages/ingest-your-data.asciidoc index aa4f772ff1..067b3b9269 100644 --- a/serverless/pages/ingest-your-data.asciidoc +++ b/serverless/pages/ingest-your-data.asciidoc @@ -4,27 +4,36 @@ // :description: Add data to your {es-serverless} project. // :keywords: serverless, elasticsearch, ingest, overview -You have many options for ingesting, or indexing, data into {es}: +The best ingest option(s) for your use case depends on whether you are indexing general content or time series (timestamped) data. -* <> -* <> -* <> -* <> -* <> -* https://github.com/elastic/crawler[Elastic Open Web Crawler] +[discrete] +[[es-ingestion-overview-apis]] +== Ingest data using APIs -The best ingest option(s) for your use case depends on whether you are indexing general content or time series (timestamped) data. +You can use the <> to add data to your {es} indices, using any HTTP client, including the <>. -**General content** +While the {es} APIs can be used for any data type, Elastic provides specialized tools that optimize ingestion for specific use cases. + +[discrete] +[[es-ingestion-overview-general-content]] +== Ingest general content -General content includes HTML pages, catalogs, files, and other content that does not update continuously. -This data can be updated, but the value of the content remains relatively constant over time. -Use connector clients to sync data from a range of popular data sources to {es}. -You can also send data directly to {es} from your application using the API. +General content is typically text-heavy data that does not have a timestamp. +This could be data like knowledge bases, website content, product catalogs, and more. + +You can use these specialized tools to add general content to {es} indices: + +* <> +* https://github.com/elastic/crawler[Elastic Open Web Crawler] +* <> [discrete] [[elasticsearch-ingest-time-series-data]] -**Times series (timestamped) data** +== Ingest time series data Time series, or timestamped data, describes data that changes frequently and "flows" over time, such as stock quotes, system metrics, and network traffic data. -Use {beats} or {ls} to collect time series data. + +You can use these specialized tools to add timestamped data to {es} data streams: + +* <> +* <>