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FileBeats

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is FileBeats?

Filebeat is a lightweight shipper for forwarding and centralizing log data. Installed as an agent on your servers, Filebeat monitors the log files or locations that you specify, collects log events, and forwards them to Elasticsearch or Logstash for indexing and analysis. It is commonly used to monitor and centralize logs from various systems, making it easier to analyze and troubleshoot issues.

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What other technologies are related to FileBeats?

FileBeats Competitor Technologies

Rsyslog is a system utility for log processing, which is a direct competitor to Filebeat.

mentioned alongside FileBeats in 14% (116) of relevant job posts

Logstash is a data processing pipeline that can also ingest logs, making it a direct competitor to Filebeat for log collection.

mentioned alongside FileBeats in 1% (125) of relevant job posts

FileBeats Complementary Technologies

Metricbeat is another 'beat' in the Elastic ecosystem, focused on collecting metrics, which often complements log data collected by Filebeat.

mentioned alongside FileBeats in 94% (60) of relevant job posts

Elasticsearch is a search and analytics engine. Filebeat commonly sends collected logs to Elasticsearch for indexing and analysis.

mentioned alongside FileBeats in 0% (246) of relevant job posts

Kibana is a data visualization dashboard for Elasticsearch. Filebeat's data is often visualized in Kibana.

mentioned alongside FileBeats in 0% (119) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention FileBeats?

Job function

Jobs mentioning FileBeats

Orgs mentioning FileBeats

Administrator

0% (128) job posts

26 organizations

Engineer

0% (104) job posts

16 organizations

Systems Engineer

0% (36) job posts

18 organizations

Solutions Architect

0% (11) job posts

8 organizations

Data Engineer

0% (9) job posts

1 organizations

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