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== {beatname_uc} overview

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<titleabbrev>Overview</titleabbrev>
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IMPORTANT: This documentation is placeholder content. It has not yet been reviewed.

{beatname_uc} is a lightweight shipper for forwarding and centralizing log data
from https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html[systemd journals].
Installed as an agent on your servers, {beatname_uc} monitors the journal
locations that you specify, collects log events, and forwards them to either to
https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch[Elasticsearch] or
https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash[Logstash].

{beatname_uc} is an Elastic https://www.elastic.co/products/beats[Beat]. It's
based on the `libbeat` framework. For more information, see the
{libbeat}/index.html[{libbeat-docs}].