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[id="{beatname_lc}-overview"]
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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.
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{beatname_uc} is a lightweight shipper for forwarding and centralizing log data
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from https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html[systemd journals].
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Installed as an agent on your servers, {beatname_uc} monitors the journal
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locations that you specify, collects log events, and forwards them to either to
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https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch[Elasticsearch] or
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https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash[Logstash].
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{beatname_uc} is an Elastic https://www.elastic.co/products/beats[Beat]. It's
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based on the `libbeat` framework. For more information, see the
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{libbeat}/index.html[{libbeat-docs}].
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