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Reputation: 551

What is beats plugin for logstash?

I saw that logstash is used for sync data between a sql server and Elastic Search 5

In this example , it is shown that Logstash can use jdbc plugin for importing data from a database

But when I look at the available plugins, I notice one plugin named Beats, it look like to also be used for importing data

I propapbly missanderstood , so is anybody acn explain me whatr the use of Beats plugin and hos is it used by logstash please?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 456

Answers (1)

Alain Collins
Alain Collins

Reputation: 16362

Logstash currently has 52 ways of getting input. As you've seen, jdbc and beats are two. Each of the inputs serves a different use case. As described in the doc, jdbc is used to "ingest data in any database with a JDBC interface" while beats is used to "receive events from the Elastic Beats framework".

Depending on your needs, you would choose the appropriate input plugin.

Upvotes: 1

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