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# Beats - The Lightweight Shippers of the Elastic Stack

The [Beats](https://www.elastic.co/beats) are lightweight data
shippers, written in Go, that you install on your servers to capture all sorts
of operational data (think of logs, metrics, or network packet data). The Beats
send the operational data to Elasticsearch, either directly or via Logstash, so
it can be visualized with Kibana.

By "lightweight", we mean that Beats have a small installation footprint, use
limited system resources, and have no runtime dependencies.

This repository contains
[libbeat](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/main/libbeat), our Go
framework for creating Beats, and all the officially supported Beats:

Beat  | Description
--- | ---
[Auditbeat](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/main/auditbeat) | Collect your Linux audit framework data and monitor the integrity of your files.
[Filebeat](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/main/filebeat) | Tails and ships log files
[Heartbeat](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/main/heartbeat) | Ping remote services for availability
[Metricbeat](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/main/metricbeat) | Fetches sets of metrics from the operating system and services
[Packetbeat](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/main/packetbeat) | Monitors the network and applications by sniffing packets
[Winlogbeat](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/main/winlogbeat) | Fetches and ships Windows Event logs
[Osquerybeat](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/main/x-pack/osquerybeat) | Runs Osquery and manages interaction with it.

In addition to the above Beats, which are officially supported by
[Elastic](https://elastic.co), the community has created a set of other Beats
that make use of libbeat but live outside of this GitHub repository. We maintain
a list of community Beats
[here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/master/community-beats.html).

## Documentation and Getting Started

You can find the documentation and getting started guides for each of the Beats
on the [elastic.co site](https://www.elastic.co/guide/):

* [Beats platform](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/index.html)
* [Auditbeat](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/index.html)
* [Filebeat](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/index.html)
* [Heartbeat](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/index.html)
* [Metricbeat](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/index.html)
* [Packetbeat](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/index.html)
* [Winlogbeat](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/winlogbeat/current/index.html)

## Documentation and Getting Started information for the Elastic Agent

You can find the documenta