I want to send logs to logstash from the command line, so I thought using filebeat with input_type=stdin should work. Using ArchLinux, filebeat-5.1.1-1. My filebeat.yml: filebeat.prospectors: - input_type: stdin output: logstash: hosts: ["localhost:5044"] I can send a message using that p…

Filebeat does not exit on EOF (input_type=stdin)

ruflin (ruflin) December 21, 2016, 8:44am 2

Filebeat is not designed to stop when the pipe closes. I'm thinking if we could do something here combined with the -once command line option. I actually never tried that.

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Filebeat does not exit on EOF (input_type=stdin)

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