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Martin LEKPA

Martin LEKPA

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Cas concrets & Applications

Filebeat

Send local server logs to Logstash or Elasticsearch.

Metricbeat

Monitor the health status (CPU, RAM, Disk) of servers.

Winlogbeat

Collect Windows security events.

Packetbeat

Intercept and analyze network traffic.

Elastic Agent

Simplify mass deployment of agents with Fleet.

Client-side filtering

Transform and filter data on the client side before sending to Elasticsearch.

Questions Fréquentes (FAQ)

They are lightweight agents from the Elastic suite installed on servers to collect data.
Filebeat collects and sends logs in a lightweight way, Logstash is a heavy transformation engine.
An agent dedicated to collecting system and service metrics.
Elastic Agent is the new unified solution intended to replace individual Beats.
The centralized interface in Kibana to configure and massively update Elastic Agents.
Yes, Winlogbeat is specifically designed for Windows event logs.
Mainly to Elasticsearch or Logstash, but also Kafka or Redis.
No, they are written in Go and designed to be very lightweight.
Ready-to-use configurations for common systems (Nginx, MySQL) including dashboards.
Yes, they support SSL/TLS encryption and authentication.