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What is Beats? #5

Open NickyDaB opened 5 years ago

NickyDaB commented 5 years ago

Question:

What is beats?

Answer:

A family of lightweight, single-purpose data shippers in the ELK Stack equation.

Approach:

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What is next:

Define the next steps and follow up here

NickyDaB commented 5 years ago

a family of lightweight, single-purpose data shippers into the ELK Stack equation.

https://www.elastic.co/elk-stack

NickyDaB commented 5 years ago

Beats are “data shippers” that are installed on servers as agents used to send different types of operational data to Elasticsearch either directly or through Logstash, where the data might be enhanced or archived.

source: https://searchitoperations.techtarget.com/definition/Elastic-Stack