Filebeat is configured to log to /var/log/filebeat, but it only logs to syslog. /var/log/filebeat directory does exist, and filebeat logs no error or warning to syslog to indicate any issues with logging to files. I've got elasticsearch, logstash, filebeat and kibana installed, version 7.0.1 for al…

Hi, Thank you for including all those details and formatting them correctly, that should make it quite easy and pleasant for me to hopefully help you very quickly. From: [image] Filebeat and systemd | Filebeat Reference [7.0] | Elastic The unit file included …

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buzzlightyear May 21, 2019, 7:41am 3

Great feedback, thank you!

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