How to turn off index management in filebeat.yml

[werowe (Walker Rowe)]

Using version 7.2.2. Getting error message:

ERROR instance/beat.go:877 Exiting: Index management requested but the Elasticsearch output is not configured/enabled

But not able to disable index management using setup.ilm.enabled: false or ilm.enabled: false:

#output.elasticsearch:
  # Array of hosts to connect to.
#  hosts: ["parisx:9200"]

  # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
  #protocol: "https"
  #username: "elastic"
  #password: "changeme"

 setup.ilm.enabled: false 
 ilm.enabled: false 

output.logstash:
hosts: ["parisx:5044"]

[Juanma (Juan Manuel Nieto)]

Hello @werowe

I think you just have to comment the ilm configuration lines.

I hope this help.

[werowe (Walker Rowe)]

The problem is there are none. So I put in these two to turn off what must be the default behavior.

[Juanma (Juan Manuel Nieto)]

MMmm I have a filebeat 7.2.0 and runs with output kafka without any issue or parameter, from where have you downloaded 7.2.2? 7.2.0 was the latest officialy released https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat

are you sure there is no ilm parameter somewhere?

[werowe (Walker Rowe)]

7.2.0

filebeat-7.2.0-amd64.deb

sudo grep ilm /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml

setup.ilm.enabled: false

ilm.enabled: false

[werowe (Walker Rowe)]

I didn't change anything and now its working. Must have been some config cached from some previous version? Never will know.

[Juanma (Juan Manuel Nieto)]

From what version have you upgraded?

Did you follow the steps from https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/7.2/upgrading.html ?

There is a note in the documentation about not upgrade from 6.x to 7.x without upgrade before to 6.7

. If you’re on Beats 6.0 through 6.6, upgrade the Elastic Stack and Beats to version 6.7 before proceeding with the 7.0 upgrade.
source: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/7.2/upgrading-6-to-7.html