Installing Filebeat
Learn how to install Filebeat, a tool for lightweight log analysis, to listen to your log files and forward them to a sink such as Logstash or Elasticsearch.
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Join For FreeFilebeat is a lightweight log shipper. It is installed as an agent and listens to a predefined set of log files and locations and forwards them to your choice of sink (Logstash, Elasticsearch, database, etc.)
Installation
deb
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.3.2-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i filebeat-6.3.2-amd64.debrpm
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.3.2-x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -vi filebeat-6.3.2-x86_64.rpmmac
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.3.2-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf filebeat-6.3.2-darwin-x86_64.tar.gzdocker
docker pull docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:6.3.2Windows
Download Filebeat from the official website and do the following configurations:
filebeat--windows
Deb (file format)
Elasticsearch
Database
Download
Docker (software)
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