Auditbeat is a new addition to the Beats family, and was first implemented in the Elastic Stack 6.0. Auditbeat is a lightweight shipper that is installed on servers in order to monitor user activity. It analyzes and processes event data in the Elastic Stack without using Linux's auditd. It works by directly communicating with the Linux audit framework and collects the same data that the auditd collects. It also does the job of sending events to the Elastic Stack in real time. By using auditbeat, you can watch the list of directories and identify whether there were any changes as file changes are sent to the configured output in real time. This helps us identify various security policy violations.