No X-PACK plugins loaded by default?

Elastic Orchestration Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)
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Hey,

I read that in ECK, the X-PACK plugins were already loaded.

But when I try GET /_cat/plugins I get nothing.

Is this because X-PACK is not in the style of plugins anymore and its already there as core funtionnalities or I just don't have any X-PACK plugings and need to install them ?

Using ECK v1.0
Env: On premise

Thx

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X-Pack and plugins are two different things.

X-Pack is an Elastic Stack extension that provides security, alerting, monitoring, reporting, machine learning, and many other capabilities. By default, when you install Elasticsearch, X-Pack is installed.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.6/setup-xpack.html

Plugins are a way to enhance the basic Elasticsearch functionality in a custom manner.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/7.6/index.html

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Thanks for your answer.

I have being misled by the sentence "xpack plugin" which I saw here and there...

Now everything's clear.