B-b-b-b-b-beats! How to Build Your Own

The Beats project has evolved from just one Beat – Packetbeat – to several Beats, many of which are written by users like you. In this talk, join Beats core developers Nicolas and Steffen in their whirlwind attempt at creating a new Beat, live, from scratch!

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1. ‹#› Steffen Siering, @urso Nicolas Ruflin, @ruflin B-b-b-b-b-beats! How to Build Your Own
2. Agenda 2 Live coding - Build your own beat 2 Community Beats 3 Q & A 4 Libbeat Overview - Architecture 1
3. ‹#› Beats Team
5. 5 libbeat {Community} Beats Elastic Beats Collect, Parse & Ship Elasticsearch Logstash Search & Analyze Enrich & Transport Kibana Explore & Visualize Optional
6. What we build today 6 Govarbeat Topbeat Monitors
7. Architecture Overview - libbeat 7 {Community}Beat libbeat Outputs * Logstash Elasticsearch Config Management Debugging Logging * Syslog File Cmd Line Handling Filtering Testing Testing Environment System Test Framework
8. ‹#› Lets Build a Beat 8
9. 9 Getting Started - Cluster Setup
10. 10 Visualise our data
11. Community Beats 11
12. 12 Links • Product Page: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats • Beats Project: https://github.com/elastic/beats • Beat-Generator: https://github.com/elastic/beat-generator • Beats Developer Guide: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/ master/new-beat.html • Discuss Forum: https://discuss.elastic.co/c/beats/libbeat
13. Q & A 13