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Date Published
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Carlos Pérez-Aradros
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1010
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Summary

Beats, a platform supporting container monitoring, has introduced Autodiscover in Filebeat and Metricbeat to enhance monitoring capabilities for Docker and Kubernetes environments. This feature allows users to define configurations that are dynamically launched by Beats to track the dynamic nature of containers, which often shift and lack fixed IP addresses. Autodiscover leverages events from providers like Kubernetes and Docker to trigger specific configurations based on condition matching, allowing for dynamic and responsive monitoring setups. With the introduction of hints in version 6.3, monitoring configurations can now be stored alongside application containers, empowering development teams to directly manage monitoring setups using Kubernetes Pod annotations or Docker labels. This hints-based approach simplifies the process by enabling flexible and context-specific monitoring configurations, making it particularly beneficial in multi-tenant environments. Users are encouraged to explore these features and provide feedback on their experiences with Autodiscover through the Beats forum.