Filebeat always need kibana now?

[azteker]

I don't want to set kibana and only need the filebeat to send data. But now I cannot start my filebeat and get this error:
Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to create the Kibana loader: Error creating Kibana client: Error creating Kibana client: fail to get the Kibana version
Can I run filebeat without kibana?

[shaunak (Shaunak Kashyap)]

Hi @azteker, welcome to the Elastic community forums!

What version of Filebeat are you using? Also, could you share you filebeat.yml configuration please (after redacting any sensitive information in it)?

Thanks,

Shaunak

[azteker]

@shaunak

My filebeat version is 6.8.0

filebeat.yml follows:

filebeat.inputs:

- type: log

  enabled: true

  paths:
    - /var2/log/cloud/*.log

filebeat.config.modules:
  path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml

  reload.enabled: false

setup.template.settings:
  index.number_of_shards: 3

setup.dashboards.enabled: true
setup.dashboards.beat:


setup.kibana:

  host: "10.28.1.17:80"

  protocol: "http"
  username: "admin"
  password: "admin"


output.logstash:

  hosts: ["10.28.1.17:5044"]

  ssl.enabled: false
  ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/beat/beat-forwarder.crt"]

  ssl.certificate: "/etc/beat/beat-forwarder.crt"

  ssl.key: "/etc/beat/beat-forwarder.key"

processors:
  - add_host_metadata: ~
  - add_cloud_metadata: ~