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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0
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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

by Pranav Shukla, Sharath Kumar
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Logstash versus Beats

After reading through the Logstash and Beats introduction, one might get confused as to whether Beats is a replacement for Logstash, the difference between them, or when to use one over the other. Beats are lightweight agents and consume less resources, and hence are installed on the edge servers where the operational data needs to be collected and shipped. Beats lack the powerful features of Logstash for parsing and transforming events. Logstash comes with a broad array of input, filter, and output plugins for collecting, enriching, and transforming data from a variety of sources. However, it is very resource intensive and can also be used as an independent product outside of Elastic Stack. Logstash is recommended to ...

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ISBN: 9781787281868