Hello,
Environment : Kibana, metricbeat, filebeat (all 7.2)
I've deployed Filebeat on my Kubernetes cluster using this yaml. It's the one from the official website, but with namespaces (elastic) and elasticsearch host output (elasticsearch-master.elastic) modifications :
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: filebeat-config
namespace: elastic
labels:
k8s-app: filebeat
data:
filebeat.yml: |-
filebeat.config:
inputs:
# Mounted `filebeat-inputs` configmap:
path: ${path.config}/inputs.d/*.yml
# Reload inputs configs as they change:
reload.enabled: false
modules:
path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
# Reload module configs as they change:
reload.enabled: false
# To enable hints based autodiscover, remove `filebeat.config.inputs` configuration and uncomment this:
#filebeat.autodiscover:
# providers:
# - type: kubernetes
# hints.enabled: true
processors:
- add_cloud_metadata:
cloud.id: ${ELASTIC_CLOUD_ID}
cloud.auth: ${ELASTIC_CLOUD_AUTH}
output.elasticsearch:
hosts: ['${ELASTICSEARCH_HOST:elasticsearch-master.elastic}:${ELASTICSEARCH_PORT:9200}']
username: ${ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME}
password: ${ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD}
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: filebeat-inputs
namespace: elastic
labels:
k8s-app: filebeat
data:
kubernetes.yml: |-
- type: docker
containers.ids:
- "*"
processors:
- add_kubernetes_metadata:
in_cluster: true
---
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: DaemonSet
metadata:
name: filebeat
namespace: elastic
labels:
k8s-app: filebeat
spec:
template:
metadata:
labels:
k8s-app: filebeat
spec:
serviceAccountName: filebeat
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
containers:
- name: filebeat
image: docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:7.2.0
args: [
"-c", "/etc/filebeat.yml",
"-e",
]
env:
- name: ELASTICSEARCH_HOST
value: elasticsearch-master.elastic
- name: ELASTICSEARCH_PORT
value: "9200"
- name: ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME
value: elastic
- name: ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD
value: changeme
- name: ELASTIC_CLOUD_ID
value:
- name: ELASTIC_CLOUD_AUTH
value:
securityContext:
runAsUser: 0
# If using Red Hat OpenShift uncomment this:
#privileged: true
resources:
limits:
memory: 200Mi
requests:
cpu: 100m
memory: 100Mi
volumeMounts:
- name: config
mountPath: /etc/filebeat.yml
readOnly: true
subPath: filebeat.yml
- name: inputs
mountPath: /usr/share/filebeat/inputs.d
readOnly: true
- name: data
mountPath: /usr/share/filebeat/data
- name: varlibdockercontainers
mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers
readOnly: true
volumes:
- name: config
configMap:
defaultMode: 0600
name: filebeat-config
- name: varlibdockercontainers
hostPath:
path: /var/lib/docker/containers
- name: inputs
configMap:
defaultMode: 0600
name: filebeat-inputs
# data folder stores a registry of read status for all files, so we don't send everything again on a Filebeat pod restart
- name: data
hostPath:
path: /var/lib/filebeat-data
type: DirectoryOrCreate
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: filebeat
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: filebeat
namespace: elastic
roleRef:
kind: ClusterRole
name: filebeat
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
name: filebeat
labels:
k8s-app: filebeat
rules:
- apiGroups: [""] # "" indicates the core API group
resources:
- namespaces
- pods
verbs:
- get
- watch
- list
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: filebeat
namespace: elastic
labels:
k8s-app: filebeat
I get data from my Filebeat containers. The problem is that these Filebeat containers appears as hosts in Kibana -> Infrastructure -> Hosts
I guess I should have only my Azure nodes here. How can I get rid of these "false" hosts ?
I have these fields in my filebeat index : host.name and kubernetes.node.name.
- Is it normal that data from my filebeat index appears in Kibana's Infrastructure part, or should it be only data from metricbeat index ? (metricbeats gets correct host.name)
- If so, does host.name should have the same value than kubernetes.node.name in filebeat data ?
- If not, is there a configuration to do on Kibana's side to get hosts values from kubernetes.node.name and not from host.name ?
Feel free to ask my for more details if needed 
