Monitoring Logstash (Legacy) [configuring-logstash]

Use the {{stack}} {{monitor-features}} to gain insight into the health of {{ls}} instances running in your environment. For an introduction to monitoring your Elastic stack, see Monitoring a cluster in the Elasticsearch Reference. Then, make sure that monitoring is enabled on your {{es}} cluster.

These options for collecting {{ls}} metrics for stack monitoring have been available for a while:

• {{metricbeat}} collection. Metricbeat collects monitoring data from your {{ls}} instance and sends it directly to your monitoring cluster. The benefit of Metricbeat collection is that the monitoring agent remains active even if the {{ls}} instance does not.
• Legacy collection (deprecated). Legacy collectors send monitoring data to your production cluster.

For more features, dependability, and easier management, consider using:

• {{agent}} collection for Stack Monitoring. {{agent}} collects monitoring data from your {{ls}} instance and sends it directly to your monitoring cluster, and shows the data in {{ls}} Dashboards. The benefit of {{agent}} collection is that the monitoring agent remains active even if the {{ls}} instance does not, you can manage all your monitoring agents from a central location in {{fleet}}.