# packetbeat

**packetbeat** Lightweight shipper for network data

Monitoring your network traffic is critical to gaining observability over your environment — ensuring high levels of performance and security. Packetbeat is a lightweight network packet analyzer that sends data from your hosts and containers to Logstash or Elasticsearch.

For more information about packetbeat, please visit
https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/packetbeat.

### Installation instructions

Please follow the documentation on [running packetbeat on Docker](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/running-on-docker.html).

### Where to file issues and PRs

- [Issues](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues)
- [PRs](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pulls)

### DoD Restrictions

### Where to get help

- [packetbeat Discuss Forums](https://discuss.elastic.co/tags/c/elastic-stack/beats/28/packetbeat)
- [packetbeat Documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/index.html)

### Still need help?

You can learn more about the Elastic Community and also understand how to get more help
visiting [Elastic Community](https://www.elastic.co/community).

This software is governed by the [Elastic
License](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/{{ .MajorMinor }}/licenses/ELASTIC-LICENSE.txt),
and includes the full set of [free
features](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions).

View the detailed release notes
[here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/release-notes-{{ beat_version }}.html).
