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How to configure Elastic filebeat 8.3 with Elasticseach?

Step 1 – Download a file beat pacage

$ cd /opt
$ yum install wget -y
$ wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-8.3.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf filebeat-8.3.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
$ cd filebeat-8.3.3-linux-x86_64

Step 2 – Configure input in filebeat.yml

# Each - is an input. Most options can be set at the input level, so
# you can use different inputs for various configurations.
# Below are the input specific configurations.

# filestream is an input for collecting log messages from files.
- type: filestream

  # Unique ID among all inputs, an ID is required.
  id: my-filestream-id

  # Change to true to enable this input configuration.
  enabled: true

  # Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.
  paths:
    - /var/log/*.log
    #- c:\programdata\elasticsearch\logs\*

Step 3 – Configure output in filebeat.yml

output.elasticsearch:
  hosts: ["https://172.18.0.2:9200"]
  username: "elastic"
  password: "qgWrZ8dzJtp*nB4HLIHZ" 
  ssl:
    enabled: true
    ca_trusted_fingerprint: "069dd4ec9161d86b6299a2823c1f66c5c7a1afd47550c8521bb07e6e0c4cf329" 

Step 4 – Configure Kibana in filebeat.yml

  setup.kibana:
    host: "172.18.0.3:5601" 
    username: "elastic"  
    password: "{qgWrZ8dzJtp*nB4HLIHZ}"

Step 5 – To test your configuration file

$ ./filebeat test config -e

Step 6 – Setup Assets

Filebeat comes with predefined assets for parsing, indexing, and visualizing your data. To load these assets:
$ ./filebeat setup -e

Step 7 – Start the filebeat daemon

$ sudo chown root filebeat.yml 
$ sudo ./filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml
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