- 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
- Beats central management
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Apache2 fields
- Auditd fields
- Beat fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Docker fields
- elasticsearch fields
- haproxy 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
Step 1: Install Filebeat
editStep 1: Install Filebeat
editBefore you begin: If you haven’t installed the Elastic Stack, do that now. See Getting started with the Elastic Stack.
To download and install Filebeat, use the commands that work with your system.
If you use Apt or Yum, you can install Filebeat from our repositories to update to the newest version more easily.
See our download page for other installation options, such as 32-bit images.
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.5.4-amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i filebeat-6.5.4-amd64.deb
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.5.4-x86_64.rpm sudo rpm -vi filebeat-6.5.4-x86_64.rpm
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.5.4-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz tar xzvf filebeat-6.5.4-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.5.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz tar xzvf filebeat-6.5.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
See Running on Docker for deploying Docker containers.
See Running on Kubernetes for deploying with Kubernetes.
- Download the Filebeat Windows zip file from the downloads page.
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Extract the contents of the zip file into
C:\Program Files. -
Rename the
filebeat-<version>-windowsdirectory toFilebeat. - Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator).
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From the PowerShell prompt, run the following commands to install Filebeat as a Windows service:
PS > cd 'C:\Program Files\Filebeat' PS C:\Program Files\Filebeat> .\install-service-filebeat.ps1
If script execution is disabled on your system, you need to set the execution policy for the current session to allow the script to run. For example: PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted -File .\install-service-filebeat.ps1.