# Using packetbeat and metricbeats for real time monitoring

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-packetbeat-and-metricbeats-for-real-time-monitoring/86051>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [May 17, 2017, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-packetbeat-and-metricbeats-for-real-time-monitoring/86051 "2017-05-17T06:55:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-packetbeat-and-metricbeats-for-real-time-monitoring/86051/1 "2017-05-17T06:55:26Z")

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Whether packetbeat and metricbeats can be used for the ELK based Real time monitoring solution where the SLAs are defined?  
This is in context to replace Sensu/Uchiwa/Grafana etc with ELK for System/infra/network and end-point monitoring.  
And to use only Kibana for log anaytics and metrics related dashboards.

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-packetbeat-and-metricbeats-for-real-time-monitoring/86051/2 "2017-05-17T10:44:24Z")

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Can you a bit more specific on what your requirements are? If you want to do endpoint monitoring with SLA you probably also want to add heartbeat to your equation: [https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/heartbeat](https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/heartbeat)

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**Author:** ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-packetbeat-and-metricbeats-for-real-time-monitoring/86051/3 "2017-05-18T08:54:12Z")

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Thanks. Whether ELK Stack alone can be used for both Log analysis and as time-series database(elasticsearch) for real time monitoring, as a single point of solution.

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-packetbeat-and-metricbeats-for-real-time-monitoring/86051/4 "2017-05-19T08:10:29Z")

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The simple answer is yes. There are quite a lot of people that use elasticsearch with filebeat and metricbeat which is kind of indirectly what you are asking.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-packetbeat-and-metricbeats-for-real-time-monitoring/86051/5 "2017-06-07T06:55:57Z")

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