Filebeat

filebeat is a lightweight software developed by Elastic for sending logs is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. Filebeat uses a backpressure-sensitive protocol for sending logs.

Install it in macOS executing: brew install filebeat or brew tap elastic/tap && brew install elastic/tap/filebeat-full or running inside a container and configure it:

Configuration files

• macOS:
  • /usr/local/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml
  • system.yml
• Docker: /usr/share/filebeat/filebeat.yml

And run it:

• filebeat modules enable system

filebeat modules enable system
Enabled system

filebeat modules enable system
Module system is already enabled

• filebeat setup (Requires Kibana running and reachable)

filebeat setup
Index setup finished.
Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable)
Loaded dashboards
Loaded machine learning job configurations
Loaded Ingest pipelines

filebeat setup
Exiting: 1 error: setting 'filebeat.prospectors' has been removed 
 Modifiy filebeat.yml file and connect to Kibana: http://localhost:5601/

• filebeat -e

-e Log to stderr and disable syslog/file output

Activities

• Review Ansible galaxy: https://galaxy.ansible.com/geerlingguy/filebeat

See also

• Elastic: ELK, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Installation, AWS Elasticsearch, Elastic SIEM, Elastic Beats, metricbeat, filebeat, journalbeat, Elastisearch Service , Search guard, Elasticsearch logs, curator, ILM, Lumberjack protocol, aws_elasticsearch_domain, KQL, elasticsearch.yml, elasticsearch-plugin, elasticsearch-certutil, Elasticsearch release notes/changelog
• Grafana, Grafana datasources, Grafana Alerting, Grafana installation, Grafana Labs, Grafana Changelog, Grafana logs, docker-compose.yml (Grafana), Grafana Loki, Grafana Tanka, StatsD and Graphite, grafana-cli, Loki, LogQL, Grafana Enterprise, Grafana Cloud, Grafana alerts, Amazon Grafana, Grafana OnCall, Grafana Tempo, Grafana Mimir, Grafana agent, plugins, Terraform, Grafana dashboards, /etc/grafana/grafana.ini, Grafana Pyroscope
• Linux logging, Cisco IOS logging

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