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# Icingabeat
> The Beats are lightweight data shippers, written in Go, that you install on
> your servers to capture all sorts of operational data (think of logs,
> metrics, or network packet data). The Beats send the operational data to
> Elasticsearch, either directly or via Logstash, so it can be visualized with
> Kibana.
Icingabeat is a Beat to fetch data from the Icinga 2 API. Icingabeat has two
modes:
Icingabeat fetches data from the Icinga 2 API and sends it either directly
to Elasticsearch or Logstash. This Beat supports two modes:
**Eventstream:** Receive an eventstream from the Icinga 2 API. Events are
checkresults, notifications and many other types. See below for details. There