Beats vs Packetbeat
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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. | Beats is the platform for single-purpose data shippers. They send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch. |
Packetbeat Statistics: Contains high-level views like the network topology, the application layer protocols repartition, the response times repartition, and others;Packetbeat Search: This page enables you to do full text searches over the indexed network messages;Packetbeat Query Analysis: This page demonstrates more advanced statistics like the top N slow SQL queries, the database throughput or the most common MySQL erro | - |
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