Hi folks, I am trying to better understand the metrics I am currently seeing from the filebeat /stats call.
Specifically looking to understand exactly what these metrics are:
u'filebeat': {u'events': {u'active': 12, u'added': 571, u'done': 559},
u'libbeat':
u'output': {u'events': {u'acked': 516,
u'active': 0,
u'batches': 54,
u'dropped': 0,
u'duplicates': 0,
u'failed': 0,
u'total': 516},
u'read': {u'bytes': 324, u'errors': 0},
u'type': u'logstash',
u'write': {u'bytes': 98123, u'errors': 0}},
u'pipeline': {u'clients': 1,
u'events': {u'active': 12,
u'dropped': 0,
u'failed': 0,
u'filtered': 43,
u'published': 528,
u'retry': 288,
u'total': 571},
u'queue': {u'acked': 516}}}
I trimmed down to just the sections I really care about.
- What do the "dropped" metrics mean?
- What do the "output" and the "pipeline" mean?
- What exactly is an "event"?
- What is the difference between a filebeat "event" and a libbeat "event"? The two sets of numbers are different and I'm not quite sure why
In addition to those questions, if I could get definitions for the different stats that would be great!