- Auditbeat Reference: other versions:
- Auditbeat overview
- Quick start: installation and configuration
- Set up and run
- Upgrade Auditbeat
- Configure
- Modules
- General settings
- Project paths
- Config file reloading
- Output
- Kerberos
- SSL
- Index lifecycle management (ILM)
- Elasticsearch index template
- Kibana endpoint
- Kibana dashboards
- Processors
- Define processors
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_cloudfoundry_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_network_direction
- add_nomad_metadata
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- append
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_duration
- decode_json_fields
- decode_xml
- decode_xml_wineventlog
- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- move_fields
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- replace
- syslog
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Internal queue
- Logging
- HTTP endpoint
- Regular expression support
- Instrumentation
- Feature flags
- auditbeat.reference.yml
- How to guides
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Monitor
- Secure
- Troubleshoot
- Get Help
- Debug
- Understand logged metrics
- 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
- Publishing to Logstash fails with "connection reset by peer" message
- @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
- Dashboard could not locate the index-pattern
- High RSS memory usage due to MADV settings
- Contribute 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.
Debug
editDebug
editBy default, Auditbeat sends all its output to syslog. When you run Auditbeat in
the foreground, you can use the -e
command line flag to redirect the output to
standard error instead. For example:
auditbeat -e
The default configuration file is auditbeat.yml (the location of the file varies by
platform). You can use a different configuration file by specifying the -c
flag. For example:
auditbeat -e -c myauditbeatconfig.yml
You can increase the verbosity of debug messages by enabling one or more debug
selectors. For example, to view publisher-related messages, start Auditbeat
with the publisher
selector:
auditbeat -e -d "publisher"
If you want all the debugging output (fair warning, it’s quite a lot), you can
use *
, like this:
auditbeat -e -d "*"
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