Metricbeat to Logstash on a remote server not working - elasticsearch

Question

I am new to elastic stack . I am trying to send metrics from one pc(ubuntu) to another remote server using Metricbeat and logstash. Below are my configuration files,
metricbeat.yml
metricbeat.modules:
#------------------------------- System Module -------------------------------
- module: system
metricsets:
# CPU stats
- cpu
# System Load stats
- load
# Per CPU core stats
#- core
# IO stats
#- diskio
# Per filesystem stats
- filesystem
# File system summary stats
- fsstat
# Memory stats
- memory
# Network stats
- network
# Per process stats
- process
# Sockets (linux only)
#- socket
enabled: true
period: 10s
processes: ['.*']
cpu_ticks : false
#================================ General =====================================
# 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.
#name:
# The tags of the shipper are included in their own field with each
# transaction published.
#tags: ["service-X", "web-tier"]
# Optional fields that you can specify to add additional information to the
# output.
#fields:
# env: staging
#================================ Outputs =====================================
# Configure what outputs to use when sending the data collected by the beat.
# Multiple outputs may be used.
#-------------------------- Elasticsearch output ------------------------------
output.elasticsearch:
# Array of hosts to connect to.
#hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
# Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
#protocol: "https"
#username: "elastic"
#password: "changeme"
#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------
#output.logstash:
# The Logstash hosts
hosts: ["127.0.0.1:5044"]
# Optional SSL. By default is off.
# List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications
ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/tls/certs/logstash-forwarder.crt"]
# Certificate for SSL client authentication
#ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"
# Client Certificate Key
#ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"
#================================ Logging =====================================
# Sets log level. The default log level is info.
# Available log levels are: critical, error, warning, info, debug
logging.level: debug
logstash.conf
input {
beats {
port => 5044
ssl => true
ssl_certificate => "/etc/pki/tls/certs/logstash-forwarder.crt"
ssl_key => "/etc/pki/tls/private/logstash-forwarder.key"
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
sniffing => true
manage_template => false
index => "%{[#metadata][beat]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
document_type => "%{[#metadata][type]}"
}
}
I am running metricbeat service but can’t get the index in Kibana (localhost:5601). What is the problem, I can't figure it out ?
Thank you.

Answer 1

It looks like you are trying to send data to your logstash using the elasticsearch output of metricbeat.
In fact, in your metricbeat.yml you have this line uncommented:
output.elasticsearch:
and this one commented:
#output.logstash:
If you toggle the comments in both lines it could work.