Beats
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Beats are lightweight data shippers that are installed on edge servers (servers on which your applications run) and can ship the logs/data to logstash/elastic search
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Popular beats
- Filebeat
- Metricbeat
- Packetbeat
- Heartbeat
- Winlogbeat
- Auditbeat
- JournalBeat
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Community beats Refer Here
- springbeats
- rsbeat
- dockerbeat
- nginxbeat
- mysqlbeat
- mongobeat
- apachebeat
- amazon-beat
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Lets install file beat on ubuntu Refer Here
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Lets create a conf file to read the logs from tcp port and send them to stdout
- Refer Here for logstash conf for apache server
- Now copy this file into /etc/logstash/conf.d and start the logstash as service
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We would have a configuration to send
- apache logs to logstash and from there to elastic search
- mysql logs to loststash and from there to elastic search
- using metric beats to send metrics to elastic search
