Elastic Stack 7 : Install Filebeat2021/06/22

	Install Filebeat that easily ships log file data to Elasticsearch or Logstash.
[1]	Install Filebeat. Configure Elasticsearch repository before it.

[root@dlp ~]#

dnf -y install filebeat

[2]	Configure basic settings and start Filebeat.

[root@dlp ~]#

vi /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml

# line 21 : set items to collect data

# if collect logs, turn to [enabled: true]

# by default, /var/log/*.log files are shipped

- type: log

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

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

  # Exclude lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It drops the lines that are
  # matching any regular expression from the list.
  #exclude_lines: ['^DBG']

  # Include lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It exports the lines that are
  # matching any regular expression from the list.
  #include_lines: ['^ERR', '^WARN']

  # Exclude files. A list of regular expressions to match. Filebeat drops the files that
  # are matching any regular expression from the list. By default, no files are dropped.
  #exclude_files: ['.gz$']

.....
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# line 151 : if use Kibana, uncomment and specify output host

# if SSL is enabled on Kibana, hostname should be the same with the hostname in certs

setup.kibana:
.....
  host: "https://dlp.srv.world:5601"

# line 178 : specify output host

# the default is localhost's Elasticsearch

# if output to Logstash, comment out Elasticsearch and uncomment logstash lines

output.elasticsearch:
  # Array of hosts to connect to.l
  hosts: ["localhost:9200"]

.....
.....

#output.logstash:
  # The Logstash hosts
  #hosts: ["localhost:5044"]

[root@dlp ~]#

vi /etc/filebeat/filebeat.reference.yml

# line 15 : set items to collect data

- module: system
  # Syslog
  syslog:
    enabled: true

.....
.....

  # Authorization logs
  auth:
    enabled: true

# line 4281 : if use Kibana, uncomment and specify output host

# if SSL is enabled on Kibana, uncomment ssl related lines

# if your certs is self-siged one, ssl.verification_mode should be [none]

setup.kibana:

  # Kibana Host
  # Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 5601)
  # In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: http://localhost:5601/path
  # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:5601
  host: "dlp.srv.world:5601"

  # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
  protocol: "https"
  #username: "elastic"
  #password: "changeme"

  # Optional HTTP Path
  #path: ""

  # Use SSL settings for HTTPS. Default is true.
  ssl.enabled: true

.....
.....

  # after very careful consideration. It is primarily intended as a temporary
  # diagnostic mechanism when attempting to resolve TLS errors; its use in
  # production environments is strongly discouraged.
  # The default value is full.
  ssl.verification_mode: none

[root@dlp ~]#

systemctl enable --now filebeat

[3]	Verify status the data has been collected normally.

# index list

[root@dlp ~]#

curl localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v

health status index                               uuid                   pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green  open   .kibana_7.13.2_001                  zA_r0rrjT7OMUMVSGmRVfg   1   0       2507          158      2.9mb          2.9mb
green  open   .apm-custom-link                    d1-9Pkn-RXOu_qhMOanvVA   1   0          0            0       208b           208b
green  open   .kibana-event-log-7.13.2-000001     Y-rCmM6yTBKa9W5H1LeJ1g   1   0          1            0      5.6kb          5.6kb
yellow open   filebeat-7.13.2-2021.06.22-000001   c18zEwqAQVeNecW7d6EAQg   1   1      11685            0      1.8mb          1.8mb
green  open   .apm-agent-configuration            y3hQme2SQpGMtb64NLsNdA   1   0          0            0       208b           208b
green  open   .async-search                       WRLoMwCITRKD3C_BrFJ9bw   1   0         45            7     71.5kb         71.5kb
green  open   .kibana_task_manager_7.13.2_001     x6V232xKQLinqRedJRAbgw   1   0         10         3730    519.6kb        519.6kb
yellow open   packetbeat-7.13.2-2021.06.22-000001 nYN59YPRQwGmDrMRXijZxA   1   1      12947            0        4mb            4mb
yellow open   test_index                          Vh0HutpLRciaMWX3pFo7Zg   1   1          1            0      5.5kb          5.5kb
yellow open   sshd_fail-2021.06                   HiOI2ac-RzK2BiwQ_gb-VQ   1   1         28            0     54.4kb         54.4kb
yellow open   metricbeat-7.13.2-2021.06.22-000001 aVbbCHScQBujmT8JMRdRBw   1   1      12040            0      7.4mb          7.4mb

# document list on the index

[root@dlp ~]#

curl localhost:9200/filebeat-7.13.2-2021.06.22-000001/_search?pretty

{
  "took" : 5,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 1,
    "successful" : 1,
    "skipped" : 0,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : {
      "value" : 10000,
      "relation" : "gte"
    },
    "max_score" : 1.0,
    "hits" : [
      {
        "_index" : "filebeat-7.13.2-2021.06.22-000001",
        "_type" : "_doc",
        "_id" : "o6EKMnoB8xzJeutJY9g5",
        "_score" : 1.0,
        "_source" : {
          "@timestamp" : "2021-06-22T04:46:13.483Z",
          "ecs" : {
            "version" : "1.8.0"
          },
          "host" : {
            "id" : "54f4bd7df8464337a3009215fdef55fb",
            "containerized" : false,
            "ip" : [
              "10.0.0.30",
              "fe80::e38e:e34:9b82:29a2"
            ],
.....
.....

[4]	If Kibana is running, it's possible to import data to sample Dashboards.

[root@dlp ~]#

filebeat setup --dashboards

Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable)
Loaded dashboards

Matched Content