File beats not sending logs to logshatsh

[Seetharaman_K]

file beats log

i know this might be upteenth time a similar kind of question is asked here , but even after refering all similar threads am not able to conclude what is the problem why my file beat is not harvesting the logs and send to logstash . may be am new to this thats why . but please community people help me in this.

i have a ELK server , and installed file beats in lient machine . beats hasto send log which it is not doing. any help will be greatly appricieated.

[Seetharaman_K]

hi i did not understand what you posted , you mean this thread will be removed ?

[Brian_Tima]

How do you know beats is not sending the logs?
Could it be Logstash is not receiving the logs being sent?
You can redirect filebeat logs to stderr with
filebeat -e

Also, test filebeat with

filebeat test config

filebeat test output

Please include the following in all your questions.

• Filebeat version
• Operating System
• Configuration
• Any supporting information, such as debugging output, that will help us diagnose your problem.

Go to this page for your version and look at the troubleshooting section
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.2/index.html

[Seetharaman_K]

you are rite , beats was sending the logs and logstash for some reason did not listen . but some how figured the problem now. there was a problem in the beats config yml also. under the path section there was only the directory path , i missed to put *.log.

after changing the configration and fxed the 5044 thing in logstash . now we are able to send logs. and logstash is listening. even we are able to see the logs in the kibana "discovery" . but now the problem is , little different . i might need another thread for that.
will tag you there if possible help. thanks a lot for responding..... really

[Brian_Tima]

Nice! You're welcome for responding.