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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0
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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

by Pranav Shukla, Sharath Kumar
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring Filebeat

The configurations related to Filebeat are stored in a configuration file named filebeat.yml. It uses YAML syntax. 

The filebeat.yml file contains the following sections:

  • Filebeat prospectors
  • Filebeat global options
  • Filebeat general options
  • Output configuration 
  • Processors configuration 
  • Paths configuration
  • Modules configuration
  • Dashboard configuration 
  • Logging configuration
The filebeat.yml file will be present in the installation directory if .zip or .tar files are used. If dep or rpm is used for installation, then it will be present in the /etc/filebeat location.

Some of these sections are common for all type of Beats. Before we look into some of these sections, let's see what a simple configuration would look like. ...

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