- Packetbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Getting started with Packetbeat
- Setting up and running Packetbeat
- Upgrading Packetbeat
- Configuring Packetbeat
- Set traffic capturing options
- Set up flows to monitor network traffic
- Specify which transaction protocols to monitor
- Specify which processes to monitor
- Specify general settings
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Export GeoIP Information
- 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
- YAML tips and gotchas
- HTTP Endpoint
- packetbeat.reference.yml
- Exported fields
- AMQP fields
- Beat fields
- Cassandra fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Common fields
- DHCPv4 fields
- DNS fields
- Docker fields
- Flow Event fields
- Host fields
- HTTP fields
- ICMP fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Memcache fields
- MongoDb fields
- MySQL fields
- NFS fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Raw fields
- Redis fields
- Thrift-RPC fields
- TLS fields
- Transaction Event fields
- Measurements (Transactions) fields
- Monitoring Packetbeat
- Securing Packetbeat
- Visualizing Packetbeat data in Kibana
- Troubleshooting
- Contributing to Beats
Step 1: Install Packetbeat
editStep 1: Install Packetbeat
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 Packetbeat, use the commands that work with your system.
If you use Apt or Yum, you can install Packetbeat from our repositories to update to the newest version more easily.
See our download page for other installation options, such as 32-bit images.
sudo apt-get install libpcap0.8 curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/packetbeat/packetbeat-6.5.4-amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i packetbeat-6.5.4-amd64.deb
sudo yum install libpcap curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/packetbeat/packetbeat-6.5.4-x86_64.rpm sudo rpm -vi packetbeat-6.5.4-x86_64.rpm
See Running on Docker for deploying Docker containers.
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/packetbeat/packetbeat-6.5.4-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz tar xzvf packetbeat-6.5.4-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/packetbeat/packetbeat-6.5.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz tar xzvf packetbeat-6.5.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
- Download and install WinPcap from this page. WinPcap is a library that uses a driver to enable packet capturing.
- Download the Packetbeat Windows zip file from the downloads page.
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Extract the contents of the zip file into
C:\Program Files. -
Rename the
packetbeat-<version>-windowsdirectory toPacketbeat. - 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 Packetbeat as a Windows service:
PS > cd 'C:\Program Files\Packetbeat' PS C:\Program Files\Packetbeat> .\install-service-packetbeat.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-packetbeat.ps1.
Before starting Packetbeat, you should look at the configuration options in the
configuration file, for example C:\Program Files\Packetbeat\packetbeat.yml or /etc/packetbeat/packetbeat.yml. For
more information about these options, see Configuring Packetbeat.