As Elastic Stack components are parts of an open source initiative, Beats have been embraced by the community, which is actively contributing to the creation of different types of Beats. There are many new beats being developed by the community that follow the Beats platform. Let us have a look at a community beat, explore it, set it up, and understand the configuration options provided for the beat.
This is a community-developed beat that provides simple yet useful functionalities. This beat provides Elasticsearch cluster related information. It provides statistics of elasticsearch clusters, elasticsearch nodes, and the health of elasticsearch nodes using the API. It requests various types of statistics from the elasticsearch cluster, which are exposed via the elasticsearch API.
Let's set up Elasticbeat in order to use it.