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Beats – The Lightweight Shippers of the Elastic Stack (github.com/elastic)
12 points by maydemir on April 29, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



It doesn't overlap 100%, but I'd strongly recommend you first find out if Vector (https://vector.dev/) fits your needs. Unlike beats, it supports 45 different "sinks" (destinations) and the documentation is something to aspire to.

Vector is focused on input -> transform -> output, so to get the Beats experience, you need to supplement it with things like Prometheus Node Exporter and such.

I was initially pretty unhappy about their introduction of a new DSL (named Vector Remap Language) which replaced their LUA transformer - because who needs to learn another DSL? But it's straightforward and has simplified a lot of our ingestion pipeline.

(Not affiliated, just a happy user).




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