Working With Ingest Pipelines In ElasticSearch And Filebeat

Published on Author gryzli

What are ingest pipelines and why you need to know about them ? Ingest Pipelines are powerful tool that ElasticSearch gives you in order to pre-process your documents, during the Indexing process. In fact they are integrating pretty much of the Logstash functionality, by giving you the ability to configure grok filters or using different… Continue reading Working With Ingest Pipelines In ElasticSearch And Filebeat

Advanced Filebeat Configuration

Published on Author gryzli

If you have made it through the initial filebeat installation , you may want to do some more interesting stuff with Filebeat. Here I will share some of my experience with it.   Configuring Filebeat To Tail Files This was one of the first things I wanted to make Filebeat do. The idea of ‘tail‘… Continue reading Advanced Filebeat Configuration

Installing And Configuring Filebeat On Centos/RHEL

Published on Author gryzli

Filebeat is a perfect tool for scraping your server logs and shipping them to Logstash or directly to ElasticSeearch. You will find some of my struggles with Filebeat and it’s proper configuration.   Installing Filebeat under Centos/RHEL As with all ELK products the installation process is really easy and straight forward. Filebeat could be easily… Continue reading Installing And Configuring Filebeat On Centos/RHEL