Filebeat command not found

Question

I am running ELK in a docker container at localhost, I am trying to start filebeat (not through docker container) but I am receiving the error below.

/etc/init.d/filebeat: command not found

Has anyone had similar issues or any idea how to resolve this?

Also they have mentioned:

If you use an init.d script to start Filebeat on deb or rpm, you can’t specify command line flags (see Command Line Options). To specify flags, start Filebeat in the foreground.

But don't understood. I have checked a lot but nothing helped. I am running this in ubuntu 16.10

ubuntu or centos? your post says ubuntu, but your comment below says centos — Will Barnwell, Apr 19 '17 at 13:57
These commands will done the job for you. `curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.3.2-amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i filebeat-7.3.2-amd64.deb` — Saif, Sep 30 '19 at 09:44

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 12 '17 at 19:45

1

Sounds like you want to start filebeat on the host but you don't have it installed

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-installation.html

answered Apr 12 '17 at 19:45

7AC

31
1

of course, I have installed it according to the instructions given in the page – many Apr 13 '17 at 12:19
What platform is this on? – 7AC Apr 17 '17 at 16:58
this is running on centos 7 @7AC – many Apr 18 '17 at 08:39

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 19 '17 at 14:00

Since you are using a Linux distribution with systemd, have you tried starting filebeat as a systemd service? Check the status:

systemctl status -l filebeat

If that returns info about the service, then filebeat is set up to be a systemd service, not an init.d spawn. Enable it to have it persist after reboot with:

sudo systemctl enable filebeat

And start it with:

sudo systemctl start filebeat

Filebeat command not found

2 Answers2