Beats
Elastic Beats are a family of lightweight, single-purpose data shippers developed by Elastic. They are designed to be installed on edge hosts to collect various types of operational data—like logs, metrics, network packets, and security events—and send them to Elasticsearch or Logstash for…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2015
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Elastic Beats were created to solve the challenge of collecting diverse operational data from a multitude of distributed sources efficiently and with minimal resource overhead. Before Beats, users primarily relied on Logstash for data ingestion into the Elastic Stack, which, while powerful, was a JVM-based application often too resource-intensive to run directly on every single edge host, container, or ephemeral server, leading to complex and inefficient data collection architectures.
- Platforms
- Docker, macOS, Linux, Kubernetes, Windows
Related technologies
Notable users
- Uber
- T-Mobile
- Cisco
- Netflix
- Goldman Sachs