Category Archives: Beats

Monitoring systems with Elasticsearch and MetricBeat

Beats is a companion product of Elasticsearch. It is defined as single purpose, lightweight data shippers. Each type of beat is designed to load a very specific data type into Elasticsearch. The Beats family includes Filebeat, which I covered in more detail in this post, Metricbeat, Packetbeat and Winlogbeat. Those are the official beats from… Read More »

Loading log data into ElasticSearch using Filebeat

In the past I covered Logstash, which is a popular tool for loading data into Elasticsearch from multiple sources. It has many official and unofficial input and output plugins that make it very versatile. This time we will see an example of another way to load data into Elasticsearch by using beats. Beats is a framework… Read More »