- Auditbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Getting started with Auditbeat
- Setting up and running Auditbeat
- Upgrading Auditbeat
- Configuring Auditbeat
- Specify which modules to run
- Specify general settings
- Reload the configuration dynamically
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Configure index lifecycle management
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Define processors
- Add cloud metadata
- Add fields
- Add labels
- Add the local time zone
- Add tags
- Decode JSON fields
- Decode Base64 fields
- Decompress gzip fields
- Community ID Network Flow Hash
- Convert
- Drop events
- Drop fields from events
- Extract array
- Keep fields from events
- Rename fields from events
- Add Kubernetes metadata
- Add Docker metadata
- Add Host metadata
- Add Observer metadata
- Dissect strings
- DNS Reverse Lookup
- Add process metadata
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Enrich events with geoIP information
- Configure project paths
- Configure the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Configure logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- HTTP Endpoint
- auditbeat.reference.yml
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Monitoring Auditbeat
- Securing Auditbeat
- Troubleshooting
- Get Help
- Debug
- Common problems
- Auditbeat fails to watch folders because too many files are open
- Auditbeat uses too much bandwidth
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- @metadata is missing in Logstash
- Not sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
- SSL client fails to connect to Logstash
- Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
- Contributing to Beats
IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
Auditbeat uses too much bandwidth
editAuditbeat uses too much bandwidth
editIf you need to limit bandwidth usage, we recommend that you configure the network stack on your OS to perform bandwidth throttling.
For example, the following Linux commands cap the connection between Auditbeat and Logstash by setting a limit of 50 kbps on TCP connections over port 5044:
tc qdisc add dev $DEV root handle 1: htb tc class add dev $DEV parent 1:1 classid 1:10 htb rate 50kbps ceil 50kbps tc filter add dev $DEV parent 1:0 prio 1 protocol ip handle 10 fw flowid 1:10 iptables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -p tcp --dport 5044 -j MARK --set-mark 10
Using OS tools to perform bandwidth throttling gives you better control over policies. For example, you can use OS tools to cap bandwidth during the day, but not at night. Or you can leave the bandwidth uncapped, but assign a low priority to the traffic.
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