Can I use filebeat to send its own logs to Elasticsearch?

[Pooort (Oleg)]

Now I'm using -e to start filebeat. But I'm going to collect logs in the files, can I config filebeat to send its own logs to Elasticsearch?

[yago82]

Hi,

you need to ensure that Filebeat is logging to a file. You can do this by setting the logging.to_files option to true in your filebeat.yml configuration file:

logging.to_files: true
logging.files.path: /var/log/filebeat
logging.files.name: filebeat.log

This will make Filebeat log its output to a file named filebeat.log.

Then you need to set up Filebeat to read its own log file and send it to Elasticsearch. You can do this by adding a new input to the filebeat.inputs section of your filebeat.yml configuration file:

filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
  paths:
    - /var/log/filebeat/filebeat.log

Regards