[[community-beats]]
== Community Beats

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

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

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https://github.com/radoondas/apachebeat[apachebeat]:: Reads status from Apache HTTPD server-status.
https://github.com/goomzee/burrowbeat[burrowbeat]:: Monitors Kafka consumer lag using Burrow.
https://github.com/goomzee/cassandrabeat[cassandrabeat]:: Uses Cassandra's nodetool cfstats utility to monitor Cassandra database nodes and lag.
https://github.com/aidan-/cloudtrailbeat[cloudtrailbeat]:: Reads events from Amazon Web Services' https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/[CloudTrail].
https://github.com/Ingensi/dockbeat[dockbeat]:: Reads Docker container
statistics and indexes them in Elasticsearch.
https://github.com/radoondas/elasticbeat[elasticbeat]:: Reads status from an Elasticsearch cluster and indexes them in Elasticsearch.
https://github.com/christiangalsterer/execbeat[execbeat]:: Periodically executes shell commands and sends the standard output and standard error to
Logstash or Elasticsearch.
https://github.com/jarpy/factbeat[factbeat]:: Collects facts from https://puppetlabs.com/facter[Facter].
https://github.com/FStelzer/flowbeat[flowbeat]:: Collects, parses, and indexes http://www.sflow.org/index.php[sflow] samples.
https://github.com/YaSuenag/hsbeat[hsbeat]:: Reads all performance counters in Java HotSpot VM.
https://github.com/christiangalsterer/httpbeat[httpbeat]:: Polls multiple HTTP(S) endpoints and sends the data to
Logstash or Elasticsearch. Supports all HTTP methods and proxies.
https://github.com/jasperla/hwsensorsbeat[hwsensorsbeat]:: Reads sensors information from OpenBSD.
https://github.com/radoondas/jmxproxybeat[jmxproxybeat]:: Reads Tomcat JMX metrics exposed over 'JMX Proxy Servlet' to HTTP.
https://github.com/mheese/journalbeat[journalbeat]:: Used for log shipping from systemd/journald based Linux systems.
https://github.com/eskibars/lmsensorsbeat[lmsensorsbeat]:: Collects data from lm-sensors (such as CPU temperatures, fan speeds, and voltages from i2c and smbus).
https://github.com/consulthys/logstashbeat[logstashbeat]:: Collects data from Logstash monitoring API (v5 onwards) and indexes them in Elasticsearch.
https://github.com/adibendahan/mysqlbeat[mysqlbeat]:: Run any query on MySQL and send results to Elasticsearch.
https://github.com/PhaedrusTheGreek/nagioscheckbeat[nagioscheckbeat]:: For Nagios checks and performance data.
https://github.com/mrkschan/nginxbeat[nginxbeat]:: Reads status from Nginx.
https://github.com/2Fast2BCn/nginxupstreambeat[nginxupstreambeat]:: Reads upstream status from nginx upstream module.
https://github.com/aristanetworks/openconfigbeat[openconfigbeat]:: Streams data from http://openconfig.net[OpenConfig]-enabled network devices
https://github.com/joehillen/packagebeat[packagebeat]:: Collects information about system packages from package
managers.
https://github.com/kozlice/phpfpmbeat[phpfpmbeat]:: Reads status from PHP-FPM.
https://github.com/joshuar/pingbeat[pingbeat]:: Sends ICMP pings to a list
of targets and stores the round trip time (RTT) in Elasticsearch.
https://github.com/chrsblck/redisbeat[redisbeat]:: Used for Redis monitoring.
https://github.com/consulthys/retsbeat[retsbeat]:: Collects counts of http://www.reso.org[RETS] resource/class records from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_listing_service[Multiple Listing Service] (MLS) servers.
https://github.com/martinhoefling/saltbeat[saltbeat]:: Reads events from salt master event bus.
https://github.com/consulthys/springbeat[springbeat]:: Collects health and metrics data from Spring Boot applications running with the actuator module.
https://github.com/buehler/go-elastic-twitterbeat[twitterbeat]:: Reads tweets for specified screen names.
https://github.com/gravitational/udpbeat[udpbeat]:: Ships structured logs via UDP.
https://github.com/cleesmith/unifiedbeat[unifiedbeat]:: Reads records from Unified2 binary files generated by
network intrusion detection software and indexes the records in Elasticsearch.
https://github.com/mrkschan/uwsgibeat[uwsgibeat]:: Reads stats from uWSGI.
https://github.com/eskibars/wmibeat[wmibeat]:: Uses WMI to grab your favorite, configurable Windows metrics.


Have you created a Beat that's not listed? If so, add the name and description of your Beat to the source document for
https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/libbeat/docs/communitybeats.asciidoc[Community Beats] and https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests[open a pull request] in the https://github.com/elastic/beats[Beats GitHub repository] to get your change merged. When you're ready, go ahead and https://discuss.elastic.co/c/annoucements[announce] your new Beat in the Elastic
discussion forum.

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[[getting-help-community-beats]]
=== Getting Help with Community Beats

Have a question about a community Beat? You can post questions and discuss issues in the
https://discuss.elastic.co/c/beats/community-beats[Community Beats] category of the Beats discussion forum.

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[[contributing-beats]]
=== Contributing to Beats

Remember, you can be a Beats developer, too. <<new-beat, Learn how>>
