Filebeat 6.0.0 spawns 3 identical processes when sudo-ed

Hello @Haribo,

What is happening is the following, I presume you have installed Filebeat from one of the packages.

When you run sudo filebeat -e it executes the bash script in /usr/bin/filebeat which spawn filebeat with the correct options to setup the environment, this will result in 2 different processes.

So in your case, It is normal to have 3.

The last line is a filebeat that was started from an init script