PacketbeatWhat is Packetbeat?
Packetbeat agents sniff the traffic between your application processes, parse on the fly protocols like HTTP, MySQL, Postgresql or REDIS and correlate the messages into transactions.
Packetbeat is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Packetbeat Statistics: Contains high-level views like the network topology, the application layer protocols repartition, the response times repartition, and othersPacketbeat Search: This page enables you to do full text searches over the indexed network messagesPacketbeat Query Analysis: This page demonstrates more advanced statistics like the top N slow SQL queries, the database throughput or the most common MySQL erro
Packetbeat Pros & Cons
Pros of Packetbeat
- ✓Easy setup
- ✓Works well with ELK stack
Cons of Packetbeat
No cons listed yet.
Packetbeat Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Packetbeat?
Beats
Beats is the platform for single-purpose data shippers. They send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch.
Wireshark
It is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level and is the de facto standard across many commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions.
PRTG
It can monitor and classify system conditions like bandwidth usage or uptime and collect statistics from miscellaneous hosts as switches, routers, servers and other devices and applications.
