- Filebeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Contributing to Beats
- Getting Started With Filebeat
- Step 1: Install Filebeat
- Step 2: Configure Filebeat
- Step 3: Configure Filebeat to use Logstash
- Step 4: Load the index template in Elasticsearch
- Step 5: Set up the Kibana dashboards
- Step 6: Start Filebeat
- Step 7: View the sample Kibana dashboards
- Quick start for common log formats
- Repositories for APT and YUM
- Setting up and running Filebeat
- Upgrading Filebeat
- How Filebeat works
- Configuring Filebeat
- Specify which modules to run
- Set up prospectors
- Manage multiline messages
- Specify general settings
- Load external configuration files
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Load balance the output hosts
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Parse logs by using ingest node
- Set up project paths
- Set up the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Set up logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- filebeat.reference.yml
- Modules
- Exported Fields
- Securing Filebeat
- Troubleshooting
- Migrating from Logstash Forwarder to Filebeat
WARNING: Version 6.0 of Filebeat has passed its EOL date.
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
Changes to command line options
editChanges to command line options
editMost command line options available in Logstash Forwarder have been removed and
migrated to config file options. The only mandatory command line option for
running Filebeat is -c
followed by the path to the config file. If you used command line
options with Logstash Forwarder, make sure that you add your options to the
configuration file. For naming changes, see Renamed options.
Filebeat does provide command line options that are common to all Beats. For more details about these options, see Filebeat commands.
Renamed options
editThe following command line options have been renamed and moved to the config file. Also see Changed configuration file options for a list of configuration file options that were completely removed or replaced by options specified in libbeat.
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