Filebeat publish metrics on start up to elastic and then stops publishing metrics.
We stopped filebeat by doing a kill -9 of the pid. Systemd restarts filebeat. Filebeat published data to the logs and then stops publishing
We are seeing these entries in the logs
2017-10-20T14:04:51-04:00 INFO Non-zero metrics in the last 30s: filebeat.harvester.open_files=2 filebeat.harvester.running=2 filebeat.harvester.started=2 libbeat.es.call_count.PublishEvents=1 libbeat.es.publish.read_bytes=475 libbeat.es.publish.write_bytes=29946 libbeat.publisher.published_events=2046
2017-10-20T14:05:21-04:00 INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s
2017-10-20T14:05:21-04:00 INFO Error publishing events (retrying): temporary bulk send failure
2017-10-20T14:05:22-04:00 INFO Connected to Elasticsearch version 5.5.2
2017-10-20T14:05:22-04:00 INFO Trying to load template for client: http://monatee-loggy-master-cnj.dev.bnymellon.net:80
2017-10-20T14:05:22-04:00 INFO Template already exists and will not be overwritten.
2017-10-20T14:05:51-04:00 INFO Non-zero metrics in the last 30s: libbeat.es.call_count.PublishEvents=1 libbeat.es.publish.read_bytes=1064 libbeat.es.publish.write_bytes=6981 libbeat.es.published_and_acked_events=39 libbeat.es.published_but_not_acked_events=11