Installing Filebeat with Ansible for Efficient Log Monitoring

Filebeat is one of the products developed by Elastic, the company behind the Elasticsearch platform. It is open-source software that functions as a lightweight log sender to send log data to Elasticsearch or Logstash for analysis, visualization, and monitoring. Filebeat is designed to collect, send, and analyze logs from various sources, such as log files, operating systems, and applications, and transmit that data to systems that further process and analyze the logs. It allows users to easily manage and analyze log data at scale.

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