Hi folks, I have some logs on my system that are jSON payload and I would like to know if can I use the "beat" to handle/ship the logs to the ES. e.g: fileBeat can do that? I have tried, but non-success. filebeat.prospectors: - type: log enabled: true encoding: plain exclude_files: …

Can we use fileBeat to send jSON logs?

pierhugues (Pier-Hugues Pellerin) January 23, 2018, 2:16am 2

Yes it's possible to process logs that have a JSON payload using the json options for the prospector

You can get a bit more details on this discuss post or this blog post

Thanks

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