How to configure ingest node pipeline in filebeats when using elastic cloud?

[mzmuda (Mike Zmuda)]

Hi all,

We're looking to configure ingest node processing on a deployment hosted in the elastic cloud, and had a question on how to configure the ingest pipeline, ie since this is a e.co cloud deployment our config for auth in filebeat.yml is:

cloud.id: "blabla"
cloud.auth: "blabla"

The guidance for configuring an ingest pipeline on a beats machine with a non-cloud deployment is:

output.elasticsearch:

• hosts: ["localhost:9200"]*
• pipeline: "test-pipeline"*

Since we have a cloud deployment, what would we put to configure the pipeline in filebeat.yml? just omit the 'hosts' line from the above or something else?

[kvch (Noémi Ványi)]

Setting output.elasticsearch.pipeline is enough. cloud.id and cloud.auth is used to work out which host to send the request, so there is no need to set hosts.