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Published inDec 2017
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Pranav Shukla
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Pranav Shukla

Pranav Shukla is the founder and CEO of Valens DataLabs, a technologist, husband, and father of two. He is a big data architect and software craftsman who uses JVM-based languages. Pranav has diverse experience of over 14 years in architecting enterprise applications for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. His core expertise lies in building JVM-based, scalable, reactive, and data-driven applications using Java/Scala, the Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, and NoSQL databases. He is a big data engineering, analytics, and machine learning enthusiast.
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Sharath Kumar M N
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Sharath Kumar M N did his master's in computer science at the University of Texas, Dallas, USA. He is currently working as a senior principal architect at Broadcom. Prior to this, he was working as an Elasticsearch solutions architect at Oracle. He has given several tech talks at conferences such as Oracle Code events. Sharath is a certified trainer Elastic Certified Instructor one of the few technology experts in the world who has been certified by Elastic Inc. to deliver their official from the creators of Elastic training. He is also a data science and machine learning enthusiast. In his free time, he likes playing with his lovely niece, Monisha; nephew, Chirayu; and his pet, Milo.
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Filebeat


Filebeat is an open source, lightweight log shipping agent that is installed as an agent to ship logs from local files. It monitors the log directories or specific log files, tails the files, and forwards them to Elasticsearch, Logstash, Redis, or Kafka. It is salable and provides the ability to ship logs from multiple systems to a centralized system/server, from which the logs can be parsed and processed.

Downloading and installing Filebeat

Navigate to https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat and, depending on your operating system, download the .zip/.tar file. The installation of Filebeat is simple and straightforward:

Note

Beats version 6.0.x is compatible with Elasticsearch 5.6.x and 6.0.x, and Logstash 5.6.x and 6.0.x. The compatibility matrix can be found at https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#matrix_compatibility. When you come across Elasticsearch and Logstash examples or usages with Beats in the chapter, make sure you have compatible versions of Elasticsearch and Logstash...

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Pranav Shukla

Pranav Shukla is the founder and CEO of Valens DataLabs, a technologist, husband, and father of two. He is a big data architect and software craftsman who uses JVM-based languages. Pranav has diverse experience of over 14 years in architecting enterprise applications for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. His core expertise lies in building JVM-based, scalable, reactive, and data-driven applications using Java/Scala, the Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, and NoSQL databases. He is a big data engineering, analytics, and machine learning enthusiast.
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Sharath Kumar M N

Sharath Kumar M N did his master's in computer science at the University of Texas, Dallas, USA. He is currently working as a senior principal architect at Broadcom. Prior to this, he was working as an Elasticsearch solutions architect at Oracle. He has given several tech talks at conferences such as Oracle Code events. Sharath is a certified trainer Elastic Certified Instructor one of the few technology experts in the world who has been certified by Elastic Inc. to deliver their official from the creators of Elastic training. He is also a data science and machine learning enthusiast. In his free time, he likes playing with his lovely niece, Monisha; nephew, Chirayu; and his pet, Milo.
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