Start your 14-day free trial today & Get 20% Off All Annual Managed ELK Plans
No Credit Card Required
Try Logit.io FreeAlready have an account? Sign In
Redis
Ship Redis Application logs to Logstash
Step 1 - Install Filebeat
deb (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint)
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-oss-7.8.1-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i filebeat-oss-7.8.1-amd64.deb
rpm (CentOS/RHEL/Fedora)
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-oss-7.8.1-x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -vi filebeat-oss-7.8.1-x86_64.rpm
macOS
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-oss-7.8.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf filebeat-oss-7.8.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
Windows
- Download the filebeat Windows zip file from the official downloads page.
- Extract the contents of the zip file into C:\Program Files.
- Rename the
filebeat-<version>-windows
directory tofilebeat
. - Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator). If you are running Windows XP, you may need to download and install PowerShell.
- Run the following commands to install filebeat as a Windows service:
cd 'C:\Program Files\filebeat'
.\install-service-filebeat.ps1
PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted -File .\install-service-filebeat.ps1
.
Step 2 - Enable the Redis Module
There are several built in filebeat modules you can use. You will need to enable the redis module. deb/rpm
sudo filebeat modules list
sudo filebeat modules enable redis
Additional module configuration can be done using the per module config files located in the modules.d folder, most commonly this would be to read logs from a non-default location
deb/rpm /etc/filebeat/modules.d/
mac/win <EXTRACTED_ARCHIVE>/modules.d/
Step 4 - Configure output
We'll be shipping to Logstash so that we have the option to run filters before the data is indexed.
Comment out the elasticsearch output block.
## Comment out elasticsearch output
#output.elasticsearch:
# hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
Uncomment and change the logstash output to match below.
output.logstash:
hosts: ["your-logstash-host:your-ssl-port"]
loadbalance: true
ssl.enabled: true
Step 5 - Validate configuration
Let's check the configuration file is syntactically correct by running filebeat directly inside the terminal.
If the file is invalid, filebeat will print an error loading config file
error message with details on how to correct the problem.
deb/rpm
sudo filebeat -e -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml
macOS
cd <EXTRACTED_ARCHIVE>
./filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml
Windows
cd <EXTRACTED_ARCHIVE>
.\filebeat.exe -e -c filebeat.yml