- Filebeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Get started
- Set up and run
- Upgrade
- How Filebeat works
- Configure
- Inputs
- General settings
- Project paths
- Config file loading
- Output
- 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_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_cef
- decode_csv_fields
- decode_json_fields
- decompress_gzip_field
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- registered_domain
- rename
- script
- timestamp
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- Autodiscover
- Internal queue
- Load balancing
- Logging
- HTTP endpoint
- Regular expression support
- filebeat.reference.yml
- How to guides
- Beats central management
- Modules
- Modules overview
- ActiveMQ module
- Apache module
- Auditd module
- AWS module
- Azure module
- CEF module
- Cisco module
- CoreDNS module
- Elasticsearch module
- Envoyproxy Module
- Google Cloud module
- haproxy module
- IBM MQ module
- Icinga module
- IIS module
- Iptables module
- Kafka module
- Kibana module
- Logstash module
- MISP module
- MongoDB module
- MSSQL module
- MySQL module
- nats module
- NetFlow module
- Nginx module
- Office 365 module
- Okta module
- Osquery module
- Palo Alto Networks module
- PostgreSQL module
- RabbitMQ module
- Redis module
- Santa module
- Suricata module
- System module
- Traefik module
- Zeek (Bro) Module
- Exported fields
- ActiveMQ fields
- Apache fields
- Auditd fields
- AWS fields
- Azure fields
- Beat fields
- Decode CEF processor fields fields
- CEF fields
- Cisco fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Coredns fields
- Docker fields
- ECS fields
- Elasticsearch fields
- Envoyproxy fields
- Google Cloud fields
- HAProxy fields
- Host fields
- ibmmq fields
- Icinga fields
- IIS fields
- iptables fields
- Jolokia Discovery autodiscover provider fields
- Kafka fields
- kibana fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Log file content fields
- logstash fields
- MISP fields
- mongodb fields
- mssql fields
- MySQL fields
- NATS fields
- NetFlow fields
- Nginx fields
- Office 365 fields
- Okta fields
- Osquery fields
- panw fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Process fields
- RabbitMQ fields
- Redis fields
- s3 fields
- Google Santa fields
- Suricata fields
- System fields
- Traefik fields
- Zeek fields
- Monitor
- Secure
- Troubleshoot
- Get help
- Debug
- Common problems
- Can’t read log files from network volumes
- Filebeat isn’t collecting lines from a file
- Too many open file handlers
- Registry file is too large
- Inode reuse causes Filebeat to skip lines
- Log rotation results in lost or duplicate events
- Open file handlers cause issues with Windows file rotation
- Filebeat is using too much CPU
- Dashboard in Kibana is breaking up data fields incorrectly
- Fields are not indexed or usable in Kibana visualizations
- Filebeat isn’t shipping the last line of a file
- Filebeat keeps open file handlers of deleted files for a long time
- Filebeat uses too much bandwidth
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- @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
- 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, Filebeat sends all its output to syslog. When you run Filebeat in
the foreground, you can use the -e
command line flag to redirect the output to
standard error instead. For example:
filebeat -e
The default configuration file is filebeat.yml (the location of the file varies by
platform). You can use a different configuration file by specifying the -c
flag. For example:
filebeat -e -c myfilebeatconfig.yml
You can increase the verbosity of debug messages by enabling one or more debug
selectors. For example, to view the published transactions, you can start Filebeat
with the publish
selector like this:
filebeat -e -d "publish"
If you want all the debugging output (fair warning, it’s quite a lot), you can
use *
, like this:
filebeat -e -d "*"
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