First off, thank you for whatever help/suggestions you provide.
I recently posted in the r/elasticsearch trying to understand the difference between logstash and filebeat and was greatly helped by someone on the team. However, as all things do, it spiraled into him helping me troubleshoot and that isn't what he needs to do. So he pointed me here.
When I add those configurations to my filebeat.yml I see the local syslog traffic in Elastic, but I am not seeing port 9000 (I also tried 514, but that didn't matter really) open to recieve syslog log from other systems. Is my understanding of that wrong? Or did I mess up somewhere?
Here is my filebeat.yml configs.
- type: syslog
protocol.udp:
host: "localhost:9000"
# Change to true to enable this input configuration.
enabled: false
# Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.
paths:
- /var/log/*.log
output.elasticsearch:
# Array of hosts to connect to.
hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
username: "[redacted]"
password: "[Redacted]"
So it looks like you have input settings for both the syslog and file input as part of the same input.
Remove the paths key and path or move it to it's own input. Indent the enabled key to line up with the host key and change to true if u want to use it. Also if u want to listen outside of localhost, change that to 0.0.0.0:9000 to listen on all ips.
- type: syslog
protocol.udp:
host: "0.0.0.0:9000"
# Change to true to enable this input configuration.
enabled: true
- type: log
# Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.
paths:
- /var/log/*.log
output.elasticsearch:
# Array of hosts to connect to.
hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
username: "[redacted]"
password: "[Redacted]"
Conceptually yes. U still have some uneven indentation that u need to fix. Also if your not actually going to read log files from the system I would comment out those lines.
filebeat.inputs:
# Each - is an input. Most options can be set at the input level, so
# you can use different inputs for various configurations.
# Below are the input specific configurations.
- type: syslog
protocol.udp:
host: "0.0.0.0:9000"
# Change to true to enable this input configuration.
enabled: true
I took out the local path for now just trying to get the rest of the syslog working.
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