December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 29m
English
Filebeat is an open source, lightweight log shipping agent that ships logs from local files. Filebeat runs as a binary and no runtime, such as JVM, is needed, hence it's very lightweight, executable, and also consumes less resources. It is installed as an agent on the edge servers from where the logs needs to be shipped. It monitors the log directories or specific log files, tails the files, and forwards them to Elasticsearch, Logstash, Redis, or Kafka. It is easily salable and provides the ability to ship logs from multiple systems to a centralized system/server, from which the logs can be parsed and processed.
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