Log pipeline
Logstash & Beats
Elastic N.V.
The canonical ELK shippers: Filebeat tails files cheaply at the edge, Logstash does heavier parsing/enrichment/fan-out (commonly Filebeat → Logstash → Elasticsearch).
- Category
- Log pipeline
- License
- Open core
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Established
- Popularity
- Ubiquitous as the default ELK ingestion path
The catch
Logstash is the heavy one — JVM memory footprint and grok-filter tuning make it resource-hungry and fiddly, which is why many teams swap it for Fluent Bit or Vector.
Monitors
LogsServersK8s
Protocols
Syslog
Built for
SRE / DevOpsEnterprise