I'm not an Elastic expert either, just a developer responsible for a lot of things that can Google pretty good, and I knew those configs seemed off. I've been h

I'm not an Elastic expert either, just a developer responsible for a lot of things that can Google pretty good, and I knew those configs seemed off. I've been hearing for years that Beats is preferable over Logstash. I don't even claim to work in the logging space :-)