Filebeat is an open source, lightweight log shipping agent that is installed as an agent to ship logs from local files. It monitors log directories, tails the files, and sends them to Elasticsearch, Logstash, Redis, or Kafka. It allows us to send logs from different systems to a centralized server. The logs can then be parsed or processed from here.
Filebeat
Downloading and installing Filebeat
Navigate to https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat-oss and, depending on your operating system, download the .zip/.tar file. The installation of Filebeat is simple and straightforward:
In this book, we will be using the Apache 2.0 version of Beats. Beats version 7.0.x is compatible with Elasticsearch 6.7.x and 7.0.x, and Logstash...