Beats are lightweight, open-source agents designed to collect and feed data to Elasticsearch, playing a crucial role in the Elastic Stack for telemetry data capture and transmission. They support a variety of use cases, such as intrusion detection, user behavior analysis, and network monitoring, by efficiently acquiring data from diverse sources. Available on multiple operating systems, Beats include specialized variants like Filebeat for log data, Metricbeat for system metrics, Packetbeat for network protocols, and Winlogbeat for Windows event logs. The article details a practical guide on setting up Beats, including Topbeat and Packetbeat, to work with an Elasticsearch cluster on AWS EC2, illustrating the straightforward nature of configuring centralized machine resource monitoring using these tools. Additionally, it introduces Libbeat, a framework for creating custom Beats, and highlights the growing Beats community contributing new monitoring solutions.