What are the advantages of using filebeat as shipper?
<p>Filebeat is used to ship log data into logstash. Logstash read that data at port 5044. </p>

<pre><code>input {
  beats {
    port =&gt; 5044
  }
}
</code></pre>

<p>We can directly feed data into logstash. </p>

<pre><code>input {
  file {
    path =&gt; "/tmp/access_log"
    start_position =&gt; "beginning"
  }
}
</code></pre>

<p>My question is that why do we need filebeat as a shipper? What are the advantages of using filebeat as shipper?</p>