Kibana Filebeat Index Pattern is not working - elasticsearch

Question

Kibana is trying to use filebeat for dashboard but it doesn't work. Can I fix this error? I added the error and filebeat.yml content. How to fix this? I can't see an error in filebeat.yml? I've done the necessary configurations, but I can't run. Filebeat- * command does not work when creating index pattern in kibana
filebeat version 1.3.1 (amd64)
dev#dev-Machine:~$ service filebeat status
filebeat.service - filebeat
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/filebeat.service; enabled; vendor preset: enable
Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Fri 2018-11-23 02:34:06 +03; 7h ago
Docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/index.html
Process: 822 ExecStart=/usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml (code=exited,
Main PID: 822 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Failed with result 'exit-cod
Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Service hold-off time over,
Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: Stopped filebeat.
Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Start request repeated too q
Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: Failed to start filebeat.
Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Failed with result 'start-li
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filebeat.yml
################### Filebeat Configuration Example #########################
############################# Filebeat ######################################
filebeat:
# List of prospectors to fetch data.
prospectors:
# Each - is a prospector. Below are the prospector specific configurations
-
# Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.
# To fetch all ".log" files from a specific level of subdirectories
# /var/log/*/*.log can be used.
# For each file found under this path, a harvester is started.
# Make sure not file is defined twice as this can lead to unexpected behaviour.
paths:
- /var/log/*.log
#- c:\programdata\elasticsearch\logs\*
# Type of the files. Based on this the way the file is read is decided.
# The different types cannot be mixed in one prospector
#
# Possible options are:
# * log: Reads every line of the log file (default)
# * stdin: Reads the standard in
input_type: log
# exclude_lines. By default, no lines are dropped.
# exclude_lines: ["^DBG"]
# Include lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It exports the lines that are
# matching any regular expression from the list. The include_lines is called before
# exclude_lines. By default, all the lines are exported.
# include_lines: ["^ERR", "^WARN"]
# Exclude files. A list of regular expressions to match. Filebeat drops the files that
# are matching any regular expression from the list. By default, no files are dropped.
# exclude_files: [".gz$"]
# Optional additional fields. These field can be freely picked
# to add additional information to the crawled log files for filtering
#fields:
# level: debug
# review: 1
# fields.
#fields_under_root: false
# Time strings like 2h (2 hours), 5m (5 minutes) can be used.
#ignore_older: 0
# Close older closes the file handler for which were not modified
# for longer then close_older
# Time strings like 2h (2 hours), 5m (5 minutes) can be used.
#close_older: 1h
# Type to be published in the 'type' field. For Elasticsearch output,
# the type defines the document type these entries should be stored
# in. Default: log
#document_type: log
# to 0s, it is done as often as possible. Default: 10s
#scan_frequency: 10s
# Defines the buffer size every harvester uses when fetching the file
#harvester_buffer_size: 16384
# Maximum number of bytes a single log event can have
# All bytes after max_bytes are discarded and not sent. The default is 10MB.
# This is especially useful for multiline log messages which can get large.
#max_bytes: 10485760
# Mutiline can be used for log messages spanning multiple lines. This is common
# for Java Stack Traces or C-Line Continuation
#multiline:
# The regexp Pattern that has to be matched. The example pattern matches all lines starting with [
#pattern: ^\[
# Defines if the pattern set under pattern should be negated or not. Default is false.
#negate: false
# Default is 500
#max_lines: 500
# Default is 5s.
#timeout: 5s
#tail_files: false
# Every time a new line appears, backoff is reset to the initial value.
#backoff: 1s
# file after having backed off multiple times, it takes a maximum of 10s to read the new line
#max_backoff: 10s
# The backoff factor defines how fast the algorithm backs off. The bigger the backoff factor,
# the faster the max_backoff value is reached. If this value is set to 1, no backoff will happen.
# The backoff value will be multiplied each time with the backoff_factor until max_backoff is reached
#backoff_factor: 2
# This option closes a file, as soon as the file name changes.
# This config option is recommended on windows only. Filebeat keeps the files it's reading open. This can cause
# issues when the file is removed, as the file will not be fully removed until also Filebeat closes
# the reading. Filebeat closes the file handler after ignore_older. During this time no new file with the
# same name can be created. Turning this feature on the other hand can lead to loss of data
# on rotate files. It can happen that after file rotation the beginning of the new
# file is skipped, as the reading starts at the end. We recommend to leave this option on false
# but lower the ignore_older value to release files faster.
#force_close_files: false
# Additional prospector
#-
# Configuration to use stdin input
#input_type: stdin
# General filebeat configuration options
#
# Event count spool threshold - forces network flush if exceeded
#spool_size: 2048
# Enable async publisher pipeline in filebeat (Experimental!)
#publish_async: false
# Defines how often the spooler is flushed. After idle_timeout the spooler is
# Flush even though spool_size is not reached.
#idle_timeout: 5s
# Name of the registry file. Per default it is put in the current working
# directory. In case the working directory is changed after when running
# filebeat again, indexing starts from the beginning again.
registry_file: /var/lib/filebeat/registry
# Full Path to directory with additional prospector configuration files. Each file must end with .yml
# These config files must have the full filebeat config part inside, but only
# the prospector part is processed. All global options like spool_size are ignored.
# The config_dir MUST point to a different directory then where the main filebeat config file is in.
#config_dir:
###############################################################################
############################# Libbeat Config ##################################
# Base config file used by all other beats for using libbeat features
############################# Output ##########################################
# Configure what outputs to use when sending the data collected by the beat.
# Multiple outputs may be used.
output:
### Elasticsearch as output
# elasticsearch:
# Array of hosts to connect to.
# Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 9200)
# In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: http://localhost:9200/path
# IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:9200
# hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
# Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
#protocol: "https"
#username: "test"
#password: "test"
# Number of workers per Elasticsearch host.
#worker: 1
# Optional index name. The default is "filebeat" and generates
# [filebeat-]YYYY.MM.DD keys.
#index: "filebeat"
# A template is used to set the mapping in Elasticsearch
# By default template loading is disabled and no template is loaded.
# These settings can be adjusted to load your own template or overwrite existing ones
#template:
# Template name. By default the template name is filebeat.
#name: "filebeat"
# Path to template file
#path: "filebeat.template.json"
# Overwrite existing template
#overwrite: false
# Optional HTTP Path
#path: "/elasticsearch"
# Proxy server url
#proxy_url: http://proxy:3128
# The number of times a particular Elasticsearch index operation is attempted. If
# the indexing operation doesn't succeed after this many retries, the events are
# dropped. The default is 3.
#max_retries: 3
# The maximum number of events to bulk in a single Elasticsearch bulk API index request.
# The default is 50.
#bulk_max_size: 50
# Configure http request timeout before failing an request to Elasticsearch.
#timeout: 90
# The number of seconds to wait for new events between two bulk API index requests.
# If `bulk_max_size` is reached before this interval expires, addition bulk index
# requests are made.
#flush_interval: 1
# Boolean that sets if the topology is kept in Elasticsearch. The default is
# false. This option makes sense only for Packetbeat.
#save_topology: false
# The time to live in seconds for the topology information that is stored in
# Elasticsearch. The default is 15 seconds.
#topology_expire: 15
# tls configuration. By default is off.
#tls:
# List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications
#certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
# Certificate for TLS client authentication
#certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"
# Client Certificate Key
#certificate_key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"
# Controls whether the client verifies server certificates and host name.
# If insecure is set to true, all server host names and certificates will be
# accepted. In this mode TLS based connections are susceptible to
# man-in-the-middle attacks. Use only for testing.
#insecure: true
# Configure cipher suites to be used for TLS connections
#cipher_suites: []
# Configure curve types for ECDHE based cipher suites
#curve_types: []
# Configure minimum TLS version allowed for connection to logstash
#min_version: 1.0
# Configure maximum TLS version allowed for connection to logstash
#max_version: 1.2
### Logstash as output
logstash:
# The Logstash hosts
hosts: ["localhost:5044"]
# Number of workers per Logstash host.
#worker: 1
# The maximum number of events to bulk into a single batch window. The
# default is 2048.
#bulk_max_size: 2048
# Set gzip compression level.
#compression_level: 3
# Optional load balance the events between the Logstash hosts
#loadbalance: true
# Optional index name. The default index name depends on the each beat.
# For Packetbeat, the default is set to packetbeat, for Topbeat
# top topbeat and for Filebeat to filebeat.
#index: filebeat
# Optional TLS. By default is off.
#tls:
# List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications
#certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
# Certificate for TLS client authentication
#certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"
# Client Certificate Key
#certificate_key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"
# Controls whether the client verifies server certificates and host name.
# If insecure is set to true, all server host names and certificates will be
# accepted. In this mode TLS based connections are susceptible to
# man-in-the-middle attacks. Use only for testing.
#insecure: true
# Configure cipher suites to be used for TLS connections
#cipher_suites: []
# Configure curve types for ECDHE based cipher suites
#curve_types: []
### File as output
#file:
# Path to the directory where to save the generated files. The option is mandatory.
#path: "/tmp/filebeat"
# Name of the generated files. The default is `filebeat` and it generates files: `filebeat`, `filebeat.1`, `filebeat.2`, etc.
#filename: filebeat
# Maximum size in kilobytes of each file. When this size is reached, the files are
# rotated. The default value is 10 MB.
#rotate_every_kb: 10000
# Maximum number of files under path. When this number of files is reached, the
# oldest file is deleted and the rest are shifted from last to first. The default
# is 7 files.
#number_of_files: 7
### Console output
# console:
# Pretty print json event
#pretty: false
############################# Shipper #########################################
shipper:
# The name of the shipper that publishes the network data. It can be used to group
# all the transactions sent by a single shipper in the web interface.
# If this options is not defined, the hostname is used.
#name:
# The tags of the shipper are included in their own field with each
# transaction published. Tags make it easy to group servers by different
# logical properties.
#tags: ["service-X", "web-tier"]
# Uncomment the following if you want to ignore transactions created
# by the server on which the shipper is installed. This option is useful
# to remove duplicates if shippers are installed on multiple servers.
#ignore_outgoing: true
# How often (in seconds) shippers are publishing their IPs to the topology map.
# The default is 10 seconds.
#refresh_topology_freq: 10
# Expiration time (in seconds) of the IPs published by a shipper to the topology map.
# All the IPs will be deleted afterwards. Note, that the value must be higher than
# refresh_topology_freq. The default is 15 seconds.
#topology_expire: 15
# Internal queue size for single events in processing pipeline
#queue_size: 1000
# Configure local GeoIP database support.
# If no paths are not configured geoip is disabled.
#geoip:
#paths:
# - "/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat"
# - "/usr/local/var/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat"
############################# Logging #########################################
# There are three options for the log ouput: syslog, file, stderr.
# Under Windos systems, the log files are per default sent to the file output,
# under all other system per default to syslog.
logging:
# Send all logging output to syslog. On Windows default is false, otherwise
# default is true.
#to_syslog: true
# Write all logging output to files. Beats automatically rotate files if rotateeverybytes
# limit is reached.
#to_files: false
# To enable logging to files, to_files option has to be set to true
files:
# The directory where the log files will written to.
#path: /var/log/mybeat
# The name of the files where the logs are written to.
#name: mybeat
# Configure log file size limit. If limit is reached, log file will be
# automatically rotated
rotateeverybytes: 10485760 # = 10MB
# Number of rotated log files to keep. Oldest files will be deleted first.
#keepfiles: 7
# Enable debug output for selected components. To enable all selectors use ["*"]
# Other available selectors are beat, publish, service
# Multiple selectors can be chained.
#selectors: [ ]
# Sets log level. The default log level is error.
# Available log levels are: critical, error, warning, info, debug
#level: error

Answer 1

First of all, I guess you're using filebeat 1.x (which is a very old version of filebeat).
Cleaning your configuration file, it seems that you have a wrongly formatted configuration file.
Your current configuration:
filebeat:
prospectors:
paths:
- /var/log/*.log
input_type: log
registry_file: /var/lib/filebeat/registry
output:
logstash:
hosts: ["localhost:5044"]
shipper:
logging:
files:
I can see that you have wrong identation and a missing prospector start dash "-".
I tested this configuration with filebeat-1.3.1-x86_64 and it works.
Can you please try to update your configuration file to:
filebeat:
prospectors:
-
input_type: log
paths:
- /var/log/*.log
registry_file: /var/lib/filebeat/registry
output:
logstash:
hosts:
- "localhost:5044"