Sorry, if its a naive question. Filebeat is configured to ship data to ES directly. Just incase ES is office and filebeat harvester found a log to ship, would it buffer, retry and ship? here is what I tried, my docker container generated a file, filebeat got that log entry and reported saying sent…

Filebeat and bufferring

sahas (Sahas) June 20, 2016, 1:03pm 3

@steffens Thanks for the explanation. This is helpful.

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