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The open source community has been hard at work developing new Beats. You can check out some of them here.

Have a question about a community Beat? You can post questions and discuss issues in the Community Beats category of the Beats discussion forum.

Have you created a Beat that’s not listed? Add the name and description of your Beat to the source document for Community Beats and open a pull request in the Beats GitHub repository to get your change merged. When you’re ready, go ahead and announce your new Beat in the Elastic discussion forum.

Want to contribute? See Appendix A, Contributing to Beats.

Elastic provides no warranty or support for community-sourced Beats.

amazonbeat	Reads data from a specified Amazon product.
apachebeat	Reads status from Apache HTTPD server-status.
apexbeat	Extracts configurable contextual data and metrics from Java applications via the APEX toolkit.
burrowbeat	Monitors Kafka consumer lag using Burrow.
hsnburrowbeat	Monitors Kafka consumer lag for Burrow V1.0.0(API V3).
cassandrabeat	Uses Cassandra’s nodetool cfstats utility to monitor Cassandra database nodes and lag.
cloudflarebeat	Indexes log entries from the Cloudflare Enterprise Log Share API.
cloudfrontbeat	Reads log events from Amazon Web Services CloudFront.
cloudtrailbeat	Reads events from Amazon Web Services' CloudTrail.
cloudwatchmetricbeat	A beat for Amazon Web Services' CloudWatch Metrics.
cloudwatchlogsbeat	Reads log events from Amazon Web Services' CloudWatch Logs.
collectbeat	Adds discovery on top of Filebeat and Metricbeat in environments like Kubernetes.
connbeat	Exposes metadata about TCP connections.
consulbeat	Reads services health checks from consul and pushes them to Elastic.
dockbeat	Reads Docker container statistics and indexes them in Elasticsearch.
elasticbeat	Reads status from an Elasticsearch cluster and indexes them in Elasticsearch.
etcdbeat	Reads stats from the Etcd v2 API and indexes them into Elasticsearch.
execbeat	Periodically executes shell commands and sends the standard output and standard error to Logstash or Elasticsearch.
factbeat	Collects facts from Facter.
fastcombeat	Periodically gather internet download speed from fast.com.
flowbeat	Collects, parses, and indexes sflow samples.
gabeat	Collects data from Google Analytics Realtime API.
gcsbeat	Reads data from Google Cloud Storage buckets.
githubbeat	Easily monitors GitHub repository activity.
gpfsbeat	Collects GPFS metric and quota information.
hackerbeat	Indexes the top stories of HackerNews into an ElasticSearch instance.
hsbeat	Reads all performance counters in Java HotSpot VM.
httpbeat	Polls multiple HTTP(S) endpoints and sends the data to Logstash or Elasticsearch. Supports all HTTP methods and proxies.
hwsensorsbeat	Reads sensors information from OpenBSD.
icingabeat	Icingabeat ships events and states from Icinga 2 to Elasticsearch or Logstash.
iobeat	Reads IO stats from /proc/diskstats on Linux.
jmxproxybeat	Reads Tomcat JMX metrics exposed over JMX Proxy Servlet to HTTP.
journalbeat	Used for log shipping from systemd/journald based Linux systems.
kafkabeat	Reads data from Kafka topics.
krakenbeat	Collect information on each transaction on the Kraken crypto platform.
lmsensorsbeat	Collects data from lm-sensors (such as CPU temperatures, fan speeds, and voltages from i2c and smbus).
logstashbeat	Collects data from Logstash monitoring API (v5 onwards) and indexes them in Elasticsearch.
mcqbeat	Reads the status of queues from memcacheq.
mongobeat	Monitors MongoDB instances and can be configured to send multiple document types to Elasticsearch.
mqttbeat	Add messages from mqtt topics to Elasticsearch.
mysqlbeat	Run any query on MySQL and send results to Elasticsearch.
nagioscheckbeat	For Nagios checks and performance data.
nginxbeat	Reads status from Nginx.
nginxupstreambeat	Reads upstream status from nginx upstream module.
nsqbeat	Reads data from a NSQ topic.
nvidiagpubeat	Uses nvidia-smi to grab metrics of NVIDIA GPUs.
openconfigbeat	Streams data from OpenConfig-enabled network devices
packagebeat	Collects information about system packages from package managers.
phpfpmbeat	Reads status from PHP-FPM.
pingbeat	Sends ICMP pings to a list of targets and stores the round trip time (RTT) in Elasticsearch.
prombeat	Indexes Prometheus metrics.
prometheusbeat	Send Prometheus metrics to Elasticsearch via the remote write feature.
protologbeat	Accepts structured and unstructured logs via UDP or TCP. Can also be used to receive syslog messages or GELF formatted messages. (To be used as a successor to udplogbeat)
pubsubbeat	Reads data from Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
redditbeat	Collects new Reddit Submissions of one or multiple Subreddits.
redisbeat	Used for Redis monitoring.
retsbeat	Collects counts of RETS resource/class records from Multiple Listing Service (MLS) servers.
rsbeat	Ships redis slow logs to elasticsearch and anlyze by Kibana.
saltbeat	Reads events from salt master event bus.
serialbeat	Reads from a serial device.
springbeat	Collects health and metrics data from Spring Boot applications running with the actuator module.
tracebeat	Reads traceroute output and indexes them into Elasticsearch.
twitterbeat	Reads tweets for specified screen names.
udpbeat	Ships structured logs via UDP.
udplogbeat	Accept events via local UDP socket (in plain-text or JSON with ability to enforce schemas). Can also be used for applications only supporting syslog logging.
unifiedbeat	Reads records from Unified2 binary files generated by network intrusion detection software and indexes the records in Elasticsearch.
uwsgibeat	Reads stats from uWSGI.
varnishlogbeat	Reads log data from a Varnish instance and ships it to Elasticsearch.
varnishstatbeat	Reads stats data from a Varnish instance and ships it to Elasticsearch.
vaultbeat	Collects performance metrics and statistics from Hashicorp’s Vault.
wmibeat	Uses WMI to grab your favorite, configurable Windows metrics.

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