I've been working to install ELK stack in CloudFoundry and sending log files from other local server by using filebeat.
I have successfully installed ELK in CloudFoundry and able to see sample messages.
Now I am trying to send log files from local server by using filebeat. Can you suggest how to configure filebeat to send log files from local server to Logstash in CloudFoundry?
You'll need to configure the Logstash output in Filebeat for this, specifying the host & port for target logstash:
#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------
output.logstash:
hosts: ["127.0.0.1:5044"]
On the logstash side, you'll need to add a beats input to the config:
input {
beats {
port => 5044
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["http://localhost:9200"]
index => "%{[#metadata][beat]}-%{[#metadata][version]}"
}
}
Read the complete documentation here.
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I have ELK all this three components configured on my local windows machine up and running.
I have a logfile on a remote centos7 machine available which I want to ship from there to my local windows with the help of Filebeat. How I can achieve that?
I have installed filebeat on centos with the help of rpm.
in configuration file I have made following changes
commented output.elasticsearch
and uncommented output.logstash (which Ip of my windows machine shall I give overe here? How to get that ip)
AND
**filebeat.inputs:
type: log
enabled: true
paths:
path to my log file**
The flow of the data is:
Agent => logstash > elasticsearch
Agent could be beat family, and you are using filebeat that is okay.
You have to configure all these stuff.
on filebeat you have to configure filebeat.yml
on logstash you have to configure logstash.conf
on elasticsearch you have to configure elasticsearch.yml
I personally will start with logstash.conf
input
{
beats
{
port =>5044
}
}
filter
{
#I assume you just want the log to run into elasticsearch
}
output
{
elasticsearch
{
hosts => "(YOUR_ELASTICSEARCH_IP):9200"
index=>"insertindexname"
}
stdout
{
codec => rubydebug
}
}
this is a very minimal working configuration. this means, Logstash will listen for input from filebeat in port 5044. Filter is needed when you want parse the data. Output is where you want to store the data. We are using elasticsearch output plugin since you want to store it to elasticsearch. stdout is super helpful for debugging your configuration file. add this you will regret nothing. This will print all the messages that sent to elasticsearch
filebeat.yml
filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
paths:
- /directory/of/your/file/file.log
output.logstash:
hosts: ["YOUR_LOGSTASH_IP:5044"]
this is a very minimal working filebeat.yml. paths is where you want logstash to harvest the file.
When you done configuring the file, start elasticsearch then logstash then filebeat.
Let me know any difficulties
I have a RabbitMQ docker container that runs perfectly and receives messages, storing them inside a queue. What I'm trying to do now is move those messages and insert them in elasticsearch. Now I've spent some time reading about it and according to the elastic documentation this can be achieved by running an instance of logstash and configuring it using the RabbitMQ plug-in.
So my questions are:
Can logstash actually play the role of a consumer and get the messages from a queue and insert them in elastic at all?
Assuming that this is the case, and having a logstash docker container is the following correct?
Command to run the docker logstash container:
docker run --rm -it -v ~/pipeline/:/usr/share/logstash/pipeline/ docker.elastic.co/logstash/logstash:7.8.0 - In this situation I'm pointing the container to use a config file outside of the container located on the server here: /usr/share/logstash/pipeline/ - took that command from elastic documents.
Is the following example config file actually correct? bear in mind that elastic, kibana and logstash are basically on the same server running in separate containers.
input {
rabbitmq {
host => "IP OF RABBITMQ"; - located on another VM.
durable => true
password => "guest"
user => "guest"
exchange => "RLMF"
exchange_type => "topic"
queue => "db.rlmf"
}
}
output {
elasticsearch { hosts => ["localhost:9200"] }
stdout { codec => rubydebug }
}
Hi I've been working on a automated logging using elastic stack. I have filebeat that is reading logs from the path and output is set to logstash over the port 5044. The logstash config has an input listening to 5044 and output pushing to localhost:9200. The issue is I can't get it to work, I have no idea what's happening. Below are the files:
My filebeat.yml path: etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml
#=========================== Filebeat prospectors =============================
filebeat.prospectors:
# Each - is a prospector. Most options can be set at the prospector level, so
# you can use different prospectors for various configurations.
# Below are the prospector specific configurations.
- input_type: log
# Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.
paths:
- /mnt/vol1/autosuggest/logs/*.log
#- c:\programdata\elasticsearch\logs\*
<other commented stuff>
#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------
output.logstash:
# The Logstash hosts
hosts: ["10.10.XX.XX:5044"]
# Optional SSL. By default is off.
<other commented stuff>
My logstash.yml path: etc/logstash/logstash.yml
<other commented stuff>
path.data: /var/lib/logstash
<other commented stuff>
path.config: /etc/logstash/conf.d
<other commented stuff>
# ------------ Metrics Settings --------------
#
# Bind address for the metrics REST endpoint
#
http.host: "10.10.XX.XX"
#
# Bind port for the metrics REST endpoint, this option also accept a range
# (9600-9700) and logstash will pick up the first available ports.
#
# http.port: 9600-9700
<other commented stuff>
path.logs: /var/log/logstash
<other commented stuff>
My logpipeline30aug.config file path: /usr/share/logstash
input {
beats {
port => 5044
}
}
filter {
grok {
match => { "message" => "\A%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp}%{SPACE}%{WORD:var0}%{SPACE}%{NOTSPACE}%{SPACE}(?<searchinfo>[^#]*)#(?<username>[^#]*)#(?<searchQuery>[^#]*)#(?<latitude>[^#]*)#(?<longitude>[^#]*)#(?<client_ip>[^#]*)#(?<responseTime>[^#]*)" }
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["http://localhost:9200"]
index => "logstash30aug2017"
document_type => "log"
}
}
Please Note: Elasticsearch, logstash, filebeat are all installed on the same machine with ip: 10.10.XX.XX and I've checked the firewall, it's not the issue for sure.
I checked that logstash, filebeat services are all running. Filebeat is able to push the data to elasticsearch when configured so and logstash is able to push the data to elasticsearch when configured so.
Maybe it's how I am executing the process is the issue..
I do a bin/logstash -f logpipeline30aug.config in /usr/share/logstash to start it and then I do a /etc/init.d/filebeat start from the root directory.
Please Note: Formatting may be effected due to stackoverflow formatting issue
Can someone please help? I've been trying everything since 3 days now, I've gone through the documentations as well
Your filebeat.yml looks invalid.
The output section lacks an indentation:
output.logstash:
hosts: ["10.10.XX.XX:5044"]
In general, check the correctness of the config files to ensure they're ok.
For instance, for filebeat, you can run:
filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml -configtest
If you have any errors it explains what is that error so you can fix it.
You can use a similar approach for other ELK services as well
I 'm newbie in ELK and and I'm getting issues while running logstash. I ran logstash as define in structure step by step as I do for file beat but
But when run filebeat and logstash, Its show logstash successfully runs at port 9600. In filebeat it gives like this
INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s
Logstash is not getting input from file beat. Please help.
My problem is as the same as this article and did what it said but noting change .
the filebeat.yml is :
filebeat.prospectors:
- input_type: log
paths:
- /usr/share/tomcat/log_app/news/*.log
output.logstash:
hosts: ["10.0.20.163:5000"]
and I ran this command sudo ./filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml -d "publish"
the logstash config file is :
input {
beats {
port => "5000"
}
}
filter {
grok {
match => { "message" => "%{COMBINEDAPACHELOG}"}
}
geoip {
source => "clientip"
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts => [ "localhost:9200" ]
index => "%{[#metadata][beat]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
document_type => "%{[#metadata][type]}"
}
}
then ran the commands
1)bin/logstash -f first-pipeline.conf --config.test_and_exit - this gave Ok
2)bin/logstash -f first-pipeline.conf --config.reload.automatic -This started the logstash on port 9600
I couldn't proceeds after this since filebeat gives the INFO
INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s
and I use
elastic search : 5.5.1
kibana : 5.5.1
logstash : 5.5.1
file beat : 5.5.1
If you want to resend your data, you can try to delete filebeat's registry file, and when you restart filebeat, it will send the data again.
File location depends on your platform. See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/5.3/migration-registry-file.html
Registry file location can also be defined in your filebeat.yml:
filebeat.registry_file: registry
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-global-options.html
Everytime you stop the filebeat. It will start reading the data from the tail of file. And because the sample file which you are using are not getting frequent data. It's not able to fetch and send it to elastic search.
Edit your log file. Add few more redundant data and then try it. It should work.
This error which you have mentioned is because FIlebeat is not able to get any updated data in that file.
I have an issue when I try to connect to my logstash from Filebeat
Logstash version 2.0.0
Filebeat 1.0.1
Here the error
INFO Connecting error publishing events (retrying): dial tcp 192.168.50.5:14560: getsockopt: connection refused
This is my logstash configuration
input {
beats {
codec => json
port => 14560
}
}
output {
elasticsearch { hosts=> localhost}
stdout {codec = > rubydebug}
}
Here my filebeat configuration
logstash:
# The Logstash hosts
hosts: ["192.168.50.5:14560","192.168.50.15:14560"]
I install the filebeat logstash plugin as I have read it
./plugin install logstash-input-beats
I have completely run out of ideas, and I would love to use this framework, but it seems not to be responding at all.
Any ideas would be great.
This happens when your logstash is not up or the logstash host is not getting connected (due to firewall maybe) from the host running filebeat . Try doing a telnet to 192.168.50.5 14560 from the host you are running filebeat.