Filebeat: Install

How to install Filebeat on Ubuntu 18.04. If your env is the other OS, please follow official document at below <Information> chapter.

Environment

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (on AWS EC2 with AWS EBS)
• Filebeat 7.8 (latest version at the writing)

Prerequsite

• Install Java

Information

• Filebeat supoorted OS: Ubuntu 18.04 supported by Filebeat 7.4+
• Filebeat Installation documents
• Filebeat Default File Paths

How To Install

• Case1: use dpkg

$ curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.8.0-amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i filebeat-7.8.0-amd64.deb

• Case2: unzip

$ curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.8.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
# tar xzvf filebeat-7.8.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
# ln -s filebeat-7.8.0-linux-x86_64 filebeat780

(Case1) Default Directory Layout

Filebeat Default File Paths

Register on System as Service and How to Run

• WARN: If you take <Case2> root, it should be not work.

Initiative

$ cd <config file path> # to use filebeat.yml
$ sudo <bin file path>/filebeat setup -e

Register on System

$ sudo systemctl enable filebeat.service
$ sudo systemctl start filebeat.service
$ sudo systemctl status filebeat.service # if you can see "active" status, it's installed successfully.