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== Overview
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<titleabbrev>Beats overview</titleabbrev>
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{beats} are open source data shippers that you install as agents on your
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servers to send operational data to
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https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch[{es}]. Elastic provides {beats}
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for capturing:
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[horizontal]
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Audit data:: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/auditbeat[Auditbeat]
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Log files:: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/filebeat[Filebeat]
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Availability:: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/heartbeat[Heartbeat]
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Metrics:: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/metricbeat[Metricbeat]
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Network traffic:: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/packetbeat[Packetbeat]
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Windows event logs:: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/winlogbeat[Winlogbeat]
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{beats} can send data directly to {es} or via
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https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash[{ls}], where you can further process
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and enhance the data, before visualizing it in
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https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash[{kib}].
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image:./images/beats-platform.png[Beats Platform]
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To get started, see <<getting-started>>.
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=== Need to capture other kinds of data?
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If you have a specific use case to solve, we encourage you to create a
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<<community-beats,community Beat>>. We've created an infrastructure to simplify
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the process. The _libbeat_ library, written entirely in Go, offers the API
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that all Beats use to ship data to Elasticsearch, configure the input options,
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implement logging, and more. To learn how to create a new Beat, see the
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{beatsdevguide}/index.html[Beats Developer Guide].
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