Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Filebeat global options

This section contains configuration options to control the behavior of Filebeat on a global level.

Some of the configuration options are as follows:

• registry_file: It is used to specify the location of the registry file, which is used to maintain information about files, such as the last offset read and if the read lines are acknowledge by the configured outputs or not. The default location of the registry is ${path.data}/registry:

filebeat.registry_file: /etc/filebeat/registry

One can specify a relative path or an absolute path as a value for this setting. If a relative path is specified, it is considered relative to the ${path.data} setting.

• shutdown_timeout: This setting specifies how long Filebeat waits on shutdown ...