This generator makes it possible to generate your own beat in seconds and build up on it.
To create your own beat based on this template, run inside your GOPATH where you want to create the beat:
cookiecutter https://github.com/elastic/beat-generator.git
This requires python and cookiecutter to be installed (pip install cookiecutter).
This beat generator has several goals:
- Create a running in beat in very few steps
- Have an environment for unit, integration and system testing ready to make testing a beat simple
- Ensure easy maintainable and standardised structure of a beat
- Provide all files needed to build up and grow a community around a beat
- Allow release management of a beat
- Make a beat easy to update to the most recent version of libbeat