Proxy_url for kibana in metricbeat.yml

Question

My server requires proxy to connect to kibana. How can I specify that in metricbeat.yml file. For output.elasticsearch there is attribute called proxy_url but I cant see for kibana

Answer 1

From metricsbeat you can send beats data elasticsearch as well setup dashboard to kibana.

Do you need proxy for setup dashboard ? If so proxy environment will work for you.

On Linux/Unix simply export proxy variable as below

export http_proxy=http://host:port/
export https_proxy=http://host:port/

and then run the setup such as below.

./metricbeat setup --dashboards

For sending only beats data you already have proxy_url under elasticsearch output module