Filebeat - service should automatically starts

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Hi,

I have the filebeat running on Freebsd and started the filebeat service via "service filebeat onestart" however I want to run filebeat service automatically in case service has stopped or if the server is rebooted, etc. Filebeat should run all the time. I know we can use "nohup" or cron script, just want to know if any other options.

Any suggestions could be appreciated !!

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Hi,

This sounds more like a FreeBSD than Filebeat question and I'll start by admitting that I'm not very familiar with FreeBSD. However, it sounds like what you're looking for is https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-rcd.html, specifically the part about adding your service to /etc/rc.conf, so something like:

filebeat_enable="YES"

Hope that helps.

Shaunak

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Many thanks, Shaunak, this will provide the reboot solution

[filebeat_enable="YES"

Any suggestion for filebeat service if service is stopped for any reason then service should start automatically.

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I don't think this is a Filebeat-specific concern. I think you'd be better served by asking this question on a FreeBSD forum, since there might be idiomatic ways of doing this for FreeBSD that you'd want to apply to Filebeat but also any other services.