Filebeat: Install
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1 min readJun 30, 2020
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
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
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.