Installing Filebeat

Filebeat

Filebeat is a light-weight log shipper. It is installed as a agent and listen to your predefined set of log files and locations and forward them to your choice of sink (Logstash, Elasticsearch, database etc.)

Installation

deb

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.3.2-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i filebeat-6.3.2-amd64.deb

rpm

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.3.2-x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -vi filebeat-6.3.2-x86_64.rpm

mac

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.3.2-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf filebeat-6.3.2-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

docker

docker pull docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:6.3.2

Windows

Download the filebeat from official website and do the following configurations.

1) Extract the zip file to your choice of location. e.g. C:\Program Files.
2) Rename the filebeat--windows directory to Filebeat.
3) Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator).
4) From the PowerShell prompt, run the following commands to install Filebeat as a Windows service:

// Command to execute from powershell
cd 'C:\Program Files\Filebeat'
.\install-service-filebeat.ps1

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