Getting Started with Packetbeat

Monica Sarbu

Beats Creator and Ingest Team Lead

Elastic

Beats is the platform for lightweight shippers to push data from your servers to the Elastic Stack. Packetbeat is lightweight network packet analyzer that lets you capture network data and parse it in real time to understand how traffic is flowing through your network.  In this video, Packetbeat co-creator Monica Sarbu introduces Packetbeat and show us how to go from installing the Beat to visualizing your network data in Kibana in the matter of minutes.