Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Filebeat prospectors

This section contains list of prospectors that Filebeat uses to locate and process log files. Each prospector item begins with a dash (-) and contains prospector-specific configuration options including one or more path to search for files to be crawled. 

A sample configuration is as follows:

Prospector-specific configuration options are as follows:

• input_type: It accepts the type as either log or stdin. The log type is used to read every log line from the file, and the stdin type is used to read from standard input. The log type is the default option.
• paths: It is used to specify one or more paths to look for files that ...