Functionbeat will reach End of Support on October 18, 2023. You should consider
moving your deployments to the more versatile and efficient Elastic Serverless
Forwarder.
Not sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
editNot sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
editBeats are lightweight data shippers that you install as agents on your servers to send specific types of operational data to Elasticsearch. Beats have a small footprint and use fewer system resources than Logstash.
Logstash has a larger footprint, but provides a broad array of input, filter, and output plugins for collecting, enriching, and transforming data from a variety of sources.
For more information, see the Logstash Introduction and the Beats Overview.