How to setup File Beat for Logstash and Compare the Logstash vs Filebeat, Which one we can use?

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Hi am newbie for ELK stack.. I want to automate the file parsing insertion into the Elastic search via Log stash. How to configure the Filebeat in windows 10?

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Best is to follow the getting started guide here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-getting-started.html

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What is the difference between Logstash and FileBeat?
Which one we can use at which scenario?

Thanks...

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In short, filebeat is for your edge nodes, logstash is more a very powerful server side component for processing and much more. So it can very well be you need Filebeat to read your logs, and Logstash to process your logs.

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