# Log Collection ## Overview The process of transferring logs, events and flow records from remote environments (on-premises or cloud) is known as log shipping. Using log shippers is the recommended way to send a high volume of logs from multiple apps and hosts. Log shippers are optimized for this task and offer many useful features such as buffering, saving data to disk in case of network issues, sending in bulk, compression, statistics, etc. Currently C**LA** supports following log shippers: 1. **Filebeat** - for syslogs, weblogs etc from Linux operating systems. * Cross platform, much lighter on resource usage, requires a Logstash instance to aggregate logs 2. **Winlogbeat**: for syslogs on Windows 3. **Packetbeat**: for Netflow/IPFIX --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.cloudfabrix.io/cfxloganalytics/log-collection.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.