Hello I am looking at a host running Ubuntu Xenial, Logging goes to the /var/log/filebeat/filebeat fine, until an index it is writing to goes read only. Then filebeat spams /var/log/syslog with messages like the following until the disk fills to 100%. This behavior is also present with the other b…

Beats (filebeat/metricbeat etc.) log to syslog with "logging.to_syslog: false"

kvch (Noémi Ványi) April 30, 2019, 1:22pm 2

Does journald run on your system? How do you start the Beat service?

Doubts about how exclude events by the process name with filebeat

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