Filebeat is not writing log to Destination folder

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Hi Team,

In my current project I am using filebeat to load csv files to Elasticsearch but filebeat is not writing the log files in to the destination folder instead it is writing /var/log/messages file. Could you please advise why it is happening like this.
Below is the configuration of filebeat.yml.

logging.level: debug
files:
  path: /var/log/filebeat
  name: filebeat.log
  keepfiles: 7

Thanks,
Debasis

2

Hi!
Can you try

logging:
  level: debug  
  to_files: true
  files:
    path: /var/log/filebeat
    name: filebeat.log
    keepfiles: 7
3

Thanks @iulia for help. Is there any way we can mention the log file size because after 11MB it is creating one more new file.

Thanks,
Debasis

4

Happy to help!
You can change the logging.files.rotateeverybytes parameter, the default is to create a new file at 10485760 (10 MB). So you can increase this if you want to keep a bigger file before switching.
See reference to all the parameters here:

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