Packetbeat pros and cons

Name: Packetbeat
Brand: Elastic
Rating: 4.0 (2 reviews)

Vendor: Elastic

4.0 out of 5

Packetbeat Pros review quotes

Assistant Vice President at QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Jan 20, 2026

The beauty of Packetbeat is that it is easy, free, and lightweight, while other solutions are expensive and will accumulate a huge amount of data.

CEO at Services insitu-it

Apr 22, 2025

Elastic's scalability, in terms of cluster robustness, is definitely the most valuable feature.

Assistant Vice President at QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Jan 20, 2026

Packetbeat analyzes specific protocols and is not suitable for full capture of all network traffic and network flows.

CEO at Services insitu-it

Apr 22, 2025

The scalability of the agent itself could be improved.