Elastic Cloud, the official hosted service for Elasticsearch and Kibana, provides users with a platform to manage and monitor system metrics via tools like Metricbeat. Users can start with a 14-day free trial requiring only an email for sign-up. The process begins by creating an Elasticsearch deployment, customizing it with various templates and configurations, and generating necessary access credentials. Users can enhance security by setting up a new superuser account through Role-Based Access Control. Metricbeat, a tool for collecting and shipping system metrics, is configured to send data to the Elastic Cloud by modifying the metricbeat.yml file with the appropriate Cloud ID and authentication details. Once set up, Metricbeat facilitates the visualization of metrics through pre-loaded Kibana dashboards, enabling users to efficiently monitor system performance and deploy the tool across multiple systems.