Filebeat is an open source, lightweight log shipping agent that ships logs from local files. Filebeat runs as a binary and no runtime, such as JVM, is needed, hence it's very lightweight, executable, and also consumes fewer resources. It is installed as an agent on the edge servers from where the logs need to be shipped. It is used to monitor log directories, tail the files, and send them to Elasticsearch, Logstash, Redis, or Kafka. It is easily scalable and allows us to send logs from different systems to a centralized server, where the logs can then be parsed and processed.