- Filebeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- 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: modules 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
- Configure inputs
- 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 data by using ingest node
- Set up project paths
- Set up the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Configure logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- Autodiscover
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- HTTP Endpoint
- filebeat.reference.yml
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Apache2 fields
- Auditd fields
- Beat fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Docker fields
- elasticsearch fields
- Host fields
- Icinga fields
- IIS fields
- Kafka fields
- kibana fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Log file content fields
- logstash fields
- mongodb fields
- MySQL fields
- Nginx fields
- Osquery fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Redis fields
- System fields
- Traefik fields
- Monitoring Filebeat
- Securing Filebeat
- Troubleshooting
- Migrating from Logstash Forwarder to Filebeat
- Contributing to Beats
Update the registry file
editUpdate the registry file
editThe registry file stores the state and location information that Filebeat uses to track
where it was last reading. Under Logstash Forwarder, this file was called .logstash-forwarder. For Filebeat,
the file was renamed. The name varies depending on the package type:
-
data/registryfor.tar.gzand.tgzarchives -
/var/lib/filebeat/registryfor DEB and RPM packages -
c:\ProgramData\filebeat\registryfor the Windows zip file
For enhancement reasons, especially for Windows, the structure of the registry file has changed. This makes migrating the file complex and leads to potential errors.
Instead of migrating the registry file, we recommend that you start Filebeat on
the same host where Logstash Forwarder is running, and send the log files to a
different index. This will start indexing from scratch. If you want to start
reading at the end of all files, you can set the tail_files option in the
Filebeat configuration file to true.
Using this approach allows you to keep the old Logstash Forwarder running and then slowly migrate over to Filebeat.