Please refer to the following URL to know more about beats: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats.
Beats are lightweight data shippers. Beats are installed on to servers as agents. Their main function is collect the data and send it to either Logstash or Elasticsearch. We can configure beats to send data to Kafka topics also.
There are multiple beats. Each beat is meant for collecting specific datasets and metrics. The following are various types of Beats:
- Filebeat: For collection of log files. They simplify the collection, parsing, and visualization of common log formats down to a single command. Filebeat comes with internal modules (auditd, Apache, nginx, system, and MySQL).
- Metricbeat: For collection of metrics. They collect metrics ...
