From a1233e99c055c9efc98dddafd1a97a20cbfd71ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Blerim Sheqa Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 16:55:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md closes #2 --- README.md | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c5a44904..8dbeafe3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,9 +1,14 @@ [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Icinga/icingabeat.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Icinga/icingabeat) # 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