Questions tagged [filebeat]

Filebeat is a lightweight, open source shipper for log file data. As the next-generation Logstash Forwarder, Filebeat tails logs and quickly sends this information to Logstash for further parsing and enrichment or to Elasticsearch for centralized storage and analysis.

Filebeat is a lightweight, open source shipper for log file data. As the next-generation Logstash Forwarder, Filebeat tails logs and quickly sends this information to Logstash for further parsing and enrichment or to Elasticsearch for centralized storage and analysis. See more details

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{"type":"mapper_parsing_exception","reason":"failed to parse field [user_agent.version]

i m sending Nginx logs via filebeat -> elastic search -> Kibana . But already have issue with some logs . It s look like this type of log is parsing without any problem : 66.249.76.123 - - [24/Apr/2020:17:24:51 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 5249 "-"…
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filebeat send messages to certain index

I have an installed pair elasticsearch - logstash - kibana, 2 clients: ELKclient1 and ELKclient2. Filebeat is installed on clients. I need that both clients write logs in separate index, ELKclient1 in index test-%{+YYYY.MM.dd, ELKclient2 in index…
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filebeat/logstash convert json to csv format

Need an advice and sample code as i am new to filebeat/logstash configuration. The harvester sends a dsv file to filebeat and the filebeat is taking the dsv input and sending an json output to logstash server. Can I send the dsv file format to…
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Does filebeat add metadata while sending logs to elasticsearch?

I'm trying to send systemd logs to elasticsearch via filebeat. I see the following metadata field in elasticsearch for one of the log entries. "meta" : { "cloud" : { "instance_id" : "xxxxxx", "machine_type" : "xxxxxx", …
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Can i avoid repetition in filebeat input settings?

I have an input settings like this (Proof Of Concept) and i will add more prospectors further on. Can i avoid repetition of the multiline properties? filebeat.prospectors: - type: log enabled: true paths: -…
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I have a separate machine for elasticsearch. It is 500GB, but logs are consuming full memory in 24 hours. How do I compress it and free memory?

[2019-08-01T13:20:48,015][INFO ][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ({“type”=>“cluster_block_exception”, “reason”=>“index [metricbea...delete (api)];“})
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Failed to restart heartbeat.service Unit not found

Jul 05 14:00:25 ip-19-0-1-16.ec2.internal heartbeat[13996]: 2019-07-05T14:00:25.518Z ERROR instance/beat.go:877 Exiting: could not create monitor: job err missing required field accessing ‘heartbeat...heartbeat.yml’) Jul 05 14:00:25…
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ELK Community Beats to gets AWS logs on ELK

I have my ELK server setup on Ubuntu 16.xx (AWS EC2 instance). 1 - I need to monitor my AWS services (SNS, SQS, SES, Lambda, Ec2, S3 ELB CloudWatch .. etc.) 2 - how can I get the real-time logs from my aws service and post to my Kibana dashboard…
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How to process and label the log data before showing in Kibana, using filebeat to logstash forwarding

I'm trying to learn ELK . I have setup Filebeat on one host which is forwarding the logs to logstash on some other server which is forwarding logs to elasticsearch. The logs being forwarded by filebeat are /var/log/messages and…
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Data exchanged between two linux servers

I am Using Filebeat and Kafka for Log management. I have a query that sends from data Filebeat to Kafka. How to know if the data is in plaintext format or is it encrypted? Please help me. Thank you.
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Filebeat command not found

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…
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How to install logstash-forwarder for multiple logstash server?

Currently we are working on forwarding logs to 2 different logstash servers. We cannot figure out a way with which we can install logstash-forwarder on a single machine. Is it possible with logstash-forwarder forwarding logs to multiple logstash ??…
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Logstash is not working and consume 99% CPU

We have the following infra structure to index application log data to ELK. filebeat -------> Logstash ------> Elastic search-----> kibana All were working fine but suddenly Logstash server consume 99.9% CPU after which no indexing is happening. In…
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How to read stdout stderr logs in kubernetes within pod using filebeat or logstash,fluentd

need suggestions how can i capture containers log using stdout or stderr ? within a pod on following use case ? my pod contains 3 containers where i want third container to capture logs by using any of these longing options filebeat, logstash or…
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How can I pick logs from a specific directory and display on Kibana

I am a newbie on elastic-stack. I setup a elastic-stack and filebeat on Ubuntu 16.04 on local environment. Now I want to read log files from a specific directory. In my case LogFile is my directory which is placed on Ubuntu desktop. I want to know…
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