elastic/beats
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 86
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0
- age_days: 4592
- days_rel: 13
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 106
Adoption not part of the score
12640 stars · 5004 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Elastic Beats is a family of lightweight data shippers written in Go that collect logs, metrics, network packets, audit data, and uptime signals from servers and containers, plus libbeat, a Go framework for building custom shippers. Data is sent to Elasticsearch or Logstash for indexing, analysis, and visualization in Kibana.
Use cases
- ship server logs to elasticsearch
- collect system and service metrics
- monitor network traffic with packet sniffing
- track service uptime and availability
- collect windows event logs
- monitor file integrity and linux audit data
- centralize logs from kubernetes containers
When to choose
- you use the Elastic Stack and need lightweight, low-footprint data collection on many hosts
- you want out-of-the-box modules for common log and metric sources
- you need a Go framework to build a custom data shipper
When to avoid
- you don't use Elasticsearch or Logstash as a destination
- you need heavy transformation before ingestion - Logstash or Vector may fit better
- you prefer a single unified agent - Elastic Agent is Elastic's newer replacement
Facets
application · maturity active
monitoring logging etl streaming developer-tools monitoring analytics security big-data windows go cross-platform log-shipper metrics-collection elasticsearch logstash libbeat filebeat metricbeat packetbeat winlogbeat heartbeat auditbeat observability data-ingestion ecs devops linux macos docker kubernetes
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/elastic/beats · fetched 2026-08-28 · ad1d8344e4f5
- homepage: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats · fetched 2026-08-29 · d3c5c5979346
- site_page: https://www.elastic.co/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · dcc190ae197d
- site_page: https://www.elastic.co/getting-started · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7de41ab1d939
- site_page: https://www.elastic.co/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · c4139162fd2c
- site_page: https://www.elastic.co/partners/ai-ecosystem · fetched 2026-08-29 · 87dba7e5abe6
- site_page: https://www.elastic.co/integrations/data-integrations · fetched 2026-08-29 · 75f0e785f92a
- site_page: https://www.elastic.co/search-labs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4474e57454b5
- site_page: https://www.elastic.co/pricing · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6ab7886d790c
- site_page: https://www.elastic.co/integrations?solution=observability · fetched 2026-08-29 · b9ccdb05a129
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| elastic/beats | main | 95 |
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