filebeat-oss (Lightweight shipper for logs) Whether you’re collecting from security devices, cloud, containers, hosts, or OT, Filebeat helps you keep the simple things simple by offering a lightweight way to forward and centralize logs and files. Filebeat is a lightweight shipper for forwarding and centralizing log data. Installed as an agent on your servers, Filebeat monitors the log files or locations that you specify, collects log events, and forwards them either to Elasticsearch or Logstash for indexing. https://www.elastic.co/beats/filebeat https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-overview.html If you intend to use filebeat with elasticsearch: Add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.filebeat ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.filebeat start fi Add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.filebeat ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.filebeat stop fi The previous instruction is not necessary if you are going to use the filebeat with graylog , the graylog is what starts the filebeat.