Filebeat

Filebeat is a lightweight log shipper from Elastic that collects log files and forwards them to Elasticsearch or Logstash.

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Filebeat is part of Beats, Elastic's family of open-source data shippers. Installed on a server, it reads new entries in log files and forwards them to Elasticsearch or Logstash, and it is written in Go to keep resource use low.

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It uses vmagent for metric collection and Filebeat and Logstash for log aggregation; OpenTelemetry offers another collection option.


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