Exploring Community Beats
As Elastic Stack components are parts of an open source initiative, Beats have been embraced by the community, which is actively contributing to the creation of different types of Beats. There are many new beats being developed by the community that follow the Beats platform. Let us have a look at a community beat, explore it, set it up, and understand the configuration options provided for the beat.
Understanding Elasticbeat
This is a community-developed beat that provides simple yet useful functionalities. This beat provides Elasticsearch cluster related information. It provides statistics of elasticsearch
clusters, elasticsearch
nodes, and the health of elasticsearch
nodes using the API. It requests various types of statistics from the elasticsearch
cluster, which are exposed via the elasticsearch
API.
Let's set up Elasticbeat in order to use it.
Installation of Elasticbeat
In this section, Elasticbeat will be installed, and this section covers installation...