What is Filebeat?
It helps you keep the simple things simple by offering a lightweight way to forward and centralize logs and files.
Filebeat is a tool in the Log Management category of a tech stack.
Who uses Filebeat?
Companies
35 companies reportedly use Filebeat in their tech stacks, including trivago, bigin, and WISESIGHT.
Developers
92 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Filebeat.
Filebeat Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Filebeat?
Logstash
Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.
Fluentd
Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Fluentd helps you unify your logging infrastructure.
Rsyslog
It offers high-performance, great security features and a modular design. It is able to accept inputs from a wide variety of sources, transform them, and output to the results to diverse destinations.
Metricbeat
Collect metrics from your systems and services. From CPU to memory, Redis to NGINX, and much more, It is a lightweight way to send system and service statistics.
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
