Five Best Practices for ingesting data with Beats

Dan Roscigno

Customer Success Manager

Elastic

This is a quick guide to get your data flowing in a secure and resilient way, and how to automate data management to save time and hardware. Reference configuration files are provided.

Highlights:

• RBAC roles for Beats
• Keystores to keep passwords off of the command line and out of config files
• Spooling to disk
• Monitoring
• Index lifecycle management

Additional Resources:

• Reference configuration files and links from slides
• Ingest from your first data source
• Introduction to logging with the ELK Stack: A primer for beginners

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