Elastic Beats - Berlin Usergroup 2016-04-26

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1. ‹#› Elastic Beats Steffen Siering
2. Beats are lightweight shippers that collect and ship all kinds of operational data to Elasticsearch 2
3. 3 All kinds of operational data • Filebeat • collects logs • Winlogbeat • collects Windows event logs • Packetbeat • collects the traffic exchanged between your servers over the wire not released • Topbeat • collects system statistics like CPU usage, disk usage, memory usage per process, etc • Metricbeat • collects metrics by interrogating periodically external services
4. Monitor MySQL with ELK Stack 4 Metricbeat mysql … Filebeat log … Packetbeat mysql … Elasticsearch Kibana stats queries slow queries
5. Process Events with Logstash 5 • Beat sends out raw events • Use filters from Logstash to parse/process events (log lines) • Flexible, with conditionals & custom filters • Forward data to other systems using the Logstash output plugins *beat Elasticsearch Logstash Other systems
6. Process Events with Ingest Node 6 • Ingest node plugin is available starting with Elasticsearch 5.0.0- alpha1 • Beat sends raw events directly to Elasticsearch • Use filters from Logstash to parse/process events (log lines) • Easier to setup *beat Elasticsearch
7. Beats provide a platform to make it easier to build custom Beats on top of it 7
8. libbeat 8 libbeat Elastic Beats Collect, Parse & Ship • Written in Go • Offers common functionality to all Beats like generic filtering • Makes sure reliably send the data out • Has support for different outputs: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Redis, Kafka Outputs
9. What’s new in 5.x 9
10. 10 • Per Beat Kibana Dashboards • libbeat: • Kafka output • Remastered Redis output • TLS/SOCKS5 • loadbalancing/failover • Custom fields • Generic filtering • Metricbeat • Filebeat • JSON support • Winlogbeat • Structured Events • Packetbeat • TCP/UDP/ICMP flows
11. ‹#› Q&A Find us on: • github.com/elastic/beats • discuss.elastic.co • @elastic #elasticbeats • #beats on freenode Or Here. In Real Life!
12. ‹#› Please attribute Elastic with a link to elastic.co Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ Creative Commons and the double C in a circle are registered trademarks of Creative Commons in the United States and other countries. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders. 12