{"id":590,"date":"2022-01-02T15:46:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T15:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2022-02-05T13:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T13:40:01","slug":"elastic-stack-beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/2022\/01\/02\/elastic-stack-beats\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Elastic Stack Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Introduction to Elastic Stack Beats<\/h1>\n<div class=\"perfect-pullquote vcard pullquote-align-full pullquote-border-placement-left\"><blockquote><p><\/p>\n<p>How is information sent to Elasticsearch? The answer is simple, using Beats or Logstash. In this post, we will give a brief introduction to Beats.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div><a class=\"donate-with-crypto\" href=\"https:\/\/commerce.coinbase.com\/checkout\/faf64f90-2e80-46ee-aeba-0fde14cbeb46\"><br \/>\nBuy Me a Coffee<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/commerce.coinbase.com\/v1\/checkout.js?version=201807\">\n  <\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"titlepage\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"title\">What are Beats?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, in our previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/2021\/12\/26\/deploying-elastic-stack-cluster-single-node-in-docker\/\">post<\/a>, we explained how to deploy Elasticsearch and Kibana. But how is information sent to Elasticsearch? The answer is simple. Using either Beats or Logstash. In this post, we will give a brief introduction to Beats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In simple words, Beats are open source data shippers, installed as agents on servers to send operational data to Elasticsearch. Elastic provides the following Beats for capturing:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"606\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/2022\/01\/02\/elastic-stack-beats\/beats_diagram\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/beats_diagram.png\" data-orig-size=\"1307,584\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CANCHITO-DEV: Beats basic diagram\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;CANCHITO-DEV: Beats basic diagram&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/beats_diagram-1024x458.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-606 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/beats_diagram.png\" alt=\"CANCHITO-DEV: Beats basic diagram\" width=\"1307\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/beats_diagram.png 1307w, http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/beats_diagram-300x134.png 300w, http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/beats_diagram-1024x458.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/beats_diagram-768x343.png 768w, http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/beats_diagram-624x279.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1307px) 100vw, 1307px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/2022\/02\/05\/audit-the-activities-of-users-and-processes-on-your-systems-with-auditbeat\">Auditbeat<\/a>:<\/em> Audit the activities of users and processes on your systems with the help of this lightweight shipper that you install on your servers.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/2021\/12\/31\/deploying-filebeat-in-docker\/\">Filebeat<\/a>:<\/em> Monitors the log files or locations that you specify, collects log events, and forwards them either to Elasticsearch or Logstash\u00a0for indexing.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/2022\/01\/30\/know-if-your-service-is-available-with-heartbeat\/\">Heartbeat<\/a>:<\/em> Periodically check the status of your services and determine whether they are available.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/2022\/01\/25\/collect-metrics-with-metricbet\/\">Metricbeat<\/a>:<\/em> Periodically collect metrics from your server&#8217;s operating system and from services running on the server with this lightweight shipper.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/2022\/01\/31\/capturing-the-network-traffic-with-packetbeat\/\">Packetbeat<\/a>:<\/em> A real-time network packet analyzer that provides an application monitoring and performance analytics system.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Functionbeat:<\/em> An Elastic Beat\u00a0that you deploy as a function in your serverless environment to collect data from cloud services and ship it to the Elastic Stack.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Winlogbeat:<\/em> Ships Windows event logs to Elasticsearch or Logstash. You can install it as a Windows service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beats can send data directly to Elasticsearch or via\u00a0Logstash, where you can further process and enhance the data, before visualizing it in\u00a0Kibana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In our following articles, we will go deeper into some of these Beats. The first one we will go through is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/2021\/12\/31\/deploying-filebeat-in-docker\/\">Filebeat<\/a>, as we will use it to send some test data to our single node Elastic Stack cluster that we deployd in our previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canchito-dev.com\/public\/blog\/2021\/12\/26\/deploying-elastic-stack-cluster-single-node-in-docker\/\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is information sent to Elasticsearch? The answer is simple, using Beats or Logstash. 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