We have a .NET Framework stack where each application instance is deployed on its own windows server. We want to move to ELK instead of just writing log files to a shared network drive. What would be the best solution in your opinion? Having a single (or a set number) of filebeat instances in a Li…

I would avoid anything using the word "mount" :slight_smile: Simple filebeat configurations don't seem to use a lot of resource per instance, they might use more depending on what all is done in modules and things I haven't used yet. We using filebeat to harvest logs from exchange servers without …

Filebeat shared or per application server

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rugenl (Len Rugen) February 14, 2020, 4:31pm 2

Avoid reading logs from a network share, run filebeat on each server and have applications log to local disk.

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Filebeat shared or per application server

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