Filebeat for zLinux (IBM mainframe zOS Linux)

[jiawang]

We want to use filebeat to get some app logs on zLinux which is linux mainframe version provided by IBM zOS. It is not intel based system, it is IBM S/390 machine.

what we did was the follow two steps (which worked with Red Hat Linux)

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.2.0-x86_64.rpm
rpm -vi filebeat-7.2.0-x86_64.rpm

the rpm was not successful, we got an message as "package filebeat-7.2.0-1.x86_64 is intended for a different architecture". Should believe this would be the same with metricbeat which we didnt try.

Any suggestion for making filebeat work on zLinux. BTW: splunk works on zLinux (we can collect logs on zLinux with splunk).

thanks.

[jiawang]

Any comments/feedback from elasticsearch filebeat support & product team regarding this question??

[pierhugues (Pier-Hugues Pellerin)]

@jiawang We do not currently support that architecture., I know that some walkthrough exist to compile to that architecture. But I haven't tested it.

We also have this issue open https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/8486 for some time.