Whether you’re collecting from security devices, cloud, containers, hosts, or OT, Filebeat helps you keep the simple things simple by offering a lightweight way to forward and centralize logs and files. After …

Jul 31, 2021 · In this article, I’ll focus on Filebeat. Filebeat is a light weight log shipper which is installed as an agent on your servers and monitors the log files or locations that you specify, collects...

Aug 26, 2025 · Filebeat is a lightweight log shipper that belongs to the Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack) ecosystem. It’s designed to monitor log files on your Linux systems and forward them to …

The Beats are lightweight data shippers, written in Go, that you install on your servers to capture all sorts of operational data (think of logs, metrics, or network packet data). The Beats send the …

Apr 12, 2018 · Filebeat is a log shipper belonging to the Beats family — a group of lightweight shippers installed on hosts for shipping different kinds of data into the ELK Stack for analysis.

In this topic, you learn about the key building blocks of Filebeat and how they work together. Understanding these concepts will help you make informed decisions about configuring Filebeat for …

Jun 4, 2025 · Enter Filebeat, a powerful log shipper designed to streamline collecting, processing, and forwarding logs from diverse sources to various destinations. Developed with efficiency in mind, …

Feb 6, 2020 · Essentially, Filebeat is a logging agent installed on the machine generating the log files, tailing them, and forwarding the data to either Logstash for more advanced processing or directly into …

Mar 9, 2025 · Filebeat (or whatever beats): is a tool that collects logs on servers where the application running. In this article, we use Filebeat.

Jun 4, 2024 · Filebeat is a lightweight, open-source log shipper from Elastic that forwards and centralizes log data. It installs as an agent on your servers to send operational data to Elasticsearch. …