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Enterprises searching for a free and open platform designed for single-purpose data shippers
About Beats
Beats is a free and open platform for single-purpose data shippers. They send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch. Beats are open source data shippers that you install as agents on your servers to send operational data to Elasticsearch. Elastic provides Beats for capturing data and event logs. Beats can send data directly to Elasticsearch or via Logstash, where you can further process and enhance the data, before visualizing it in Kibana. Want to get up and running quickly with infrastructure metrics monitoring and centralized log analytics? Try out the Metrics app and the Logs app in Kibana. For more details, see Analyze metrics and Monitor logs. Whether you’re collecting from security devices, cloud, containers, hosts, or OT, Filebeat helps you keep the simple things simple by offering a lightweight way to forward and centralize logs and files.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$16 per month
Company Information
Elastic
Founded: 2012
United States
www.elastic.co/beats/
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Beats Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Beats work with?
Beats works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Beats support in their product?
Beats supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Beats offer?
Beats offers support via phone support, 24/7 live support, and online.
Q: What other applications or services does Beats integrate with?
Beats integrates with: Aerospike, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Apache Airflow, Apache Ant, Apache AntUnit, Apache Atlas, Apache Aurora, AWS Fargate, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Elastic Cloud, Elasticsearch, Google VPC Service Controls, Kibana, Kubernetes, Logstash, and Splunk Cloud Platform and more.
Q: Does Beats have an API?
Yes, Beats has an API.
Q: What type of training does Beats provide?
Beats provides training in the form of documentation, in person, and videos.
Q: How much does Beats cost?
Pricing for Beats starts at $16 per month.
