The Beats input plugin allows Logstash to receive events from the Elastic Beats framework. Beats are a collection of lightweight daemons that collect operational data from your servers and ship to configured outputs such as Logstash, Elasticsearch, Redis, and so on. There are several Beats available, including Metricbeat, Filebeat, Winlogbeat, and so on. Filebeat ships log files from your servers, Metricbeat is a server monitoring agent that periodically collects metrics from the services and operating systems running on your servers, and Winlogbeat ships Windows event logs. We will be exploring the Beats framework and some of these Beats in the upcoming chapters.
By using the beats input plugin, we can make Logstash listen on desired ...
