- Journalbeat Reference for 6.5-7.15:
- Overview
- Getting started with Journalbeat
- Setting up and running Journalbeat
- Configuring Journalbeat
- Configure inputs
- Specify general settings
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Set up index lifecycle management
- 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 Elasticsearch index template
- Configure logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- HTTP Endpoint
- journalbeat.reference.yml
- Exported fields
- Monitoring Journalbeat
- Securing Journalbeat
- Troubleshooting
This functionality is experimental and may be changed or removed completely in a
future release. Elastic will take a best effort approach to fix any issues, but
experimental features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA
features.
Step 4: Start Journalbeat
editStep 4: Start Journalbeat
editStart Journalbeat by issuing the appropriate command for your platform. If you are accessing a secured Elasticsearch cluster, make sure you’ve configured credentials as described in Step 2: Configure Journalbeat.
If you use an init.d script to start Journalbeat on deb or rpm, you can’t specify command line flags (see Command reference). To specify flags, start Journalbeat in the foreground.
deb and rpm:
sudo service journalbeat start
linux:
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You’ll be running Journalbeat as root, so you need to change ownership
of the configuration file, or run Journalbeat with |
Journalbeat is now ready to send journal events to the defined output.
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