Beats are lightweight data shippers that send metrics and logs to Elasticsearch or Logstash.
- Single-purpose shippers (Metricbeat, Filebeat, etc.)
- Lightweight agents for large fleets
- Integrations with Elastic Stack
- Infrastructure metrics collection
- Shipping logs and events to Elasticsearch
- Open-source and self-hosted
- Documentation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/beats-reference.html
- Source Code: https://github.com/elastic/beats
Beats Setup