How to load filebeat or elastic config from a non-default location

[motamedi791 (Ali M)]

I am using filebeat on my Linux machine as a service (i.e. sudo service start filebeat). The service is started with the config file from the default location:

● filebeat.service - Filebeat sends log files to Logstash or directly to Elasticsearch.
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/filebeat.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Docs: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/filebeat
 Main PID: 4097 (filebeat)
   CGroup: /system.slice/filebeat.service
           └─4097 /usr/share/filebeat/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml -path.home /usr/share/filebeat -path.

systemd[1]: Started Filebeat sends log files to Logstash or directly to Elasticsearch..

How can I tell the service to load the config file from another location?

[kvch (Noémi Ványi)]

You can do it as you would do it for other systemd services. You can either edit the service file under /lib/systemd/system and change the config path to the desired one.

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/share/filebeat/bin/filebeat -c {{ path-to-your-config }} -path.home /usr/share/filebeat -path.config /etc/filebeat -path.data /var/lib/filebeat -path.logs /var/log/filebeat

Or you can override the option as described here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/659267/how-do-i-override-or-configure-systemd-services