[id="{beatname_lc}-overview"]
== {beatname_uc} overview

{beatname_uc} is a lightweight shipper for forwarding and centralizing log data
from https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-journald.service.html[systemd journals].
Installed as an agent on your servers, {beatname_uc} monitors the journal
locations that you specify, collects log events, and forwards them to either to
https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch[Elasticsearch] or
https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash[Logstash].

include::{libbeat-dir}/shared-libbeat-description.asciidoc[]
