In the last chapter, we covered the dashboard creation using Logstash, where we were pulling the data from RDBMS and pushing it to the Elasticsearch cluster. After that, we were showing the dashboard in Kibana by reading the Elasticsearch data. In this chapter, we will cover dashboard creation using Elastic Beats, which also provides us with the option to import built-in dashboards.
There are different Beats that provide us with metrics from different servers, such as the following:
- Packetbeat: This gives us the details about the network packets. It is a lightweight network packet analyzer that sends packet data to Logstash or Elasticsearch.
- Filebeat: Filebeat is used to send file data , such as logs. It runs on the server and periodically checks for any change in the log file; when there is any change, it sends the log to Logstash or Elasticsearch.
- Metricbeat: This is used to collect metrics for memory usage, CPU usage and disk space, and...