# HowTo - Filebeat on OpenBSD 5.9 **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [February 7, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180 "2017-02-07T08:34:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![srikanthchandika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@srikanthchandika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthchandika)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/1 "2017-02-07T08:34:45Z")
Hi, I am trying to setup filebeat on OpenBSD 5.9. But I am new to OpenBSD. I need help on installation and configuration. I followed this "[Filebeat compile on OpenBSD 6.0](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-compile-on-openbsd-6-0/65145/4)" procedure but didn't work me I got many errors while "make install" ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/2 "2017-02-07T08:54:06Z")
_What_ errors during `make install`? ---
**Author:** ![srikanthchandika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@srikanthchandika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthchandika)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/3 "2017-02-07T13:19:50Z")
I am getting dependency errors while building go lang from src. Somehow "make install" passed and go-1.5.3 is installed. Now I got stuck after cloning beats repo, cd filebeat go get [github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/outputs](http://github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/outputs) ../libbeat/outputs/tls.go:64: undefined: tls.TLS\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_128\_GCM\_SHA256 ../libbeat/outputs/tls.go:66: undefined: tls.TLS\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_256\_GCM\_SHA384 gmake [github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/outputs](http://github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/outputs) ../libbeat/outputs/tls.go:64: undefined: tls.TLS\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_128\_GCM\_SHA256 ../libbeat/outputs/tls.go:66: undefined: tls.TLS\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_256\_GCM\_SHA384 ../libbeat/scripts/Makefile:73: recipe for target 'filebeat' failed gmake: \*\*\* [filebeat] Error 2 ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/4 "2017-02-07T13:27:50Z")
I think you need at least Go 1.6 or 1.7. The Go version requirement is listed in the documentation somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![srikanthchandika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@srikanthchandika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthchandika)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/5 "2017-02-07T13:40:04Z")
Yes I see it but when I make install from /usr/ports/lang/go I got 1.5 I have also referred go installation documentation for OpenBSD, there it is mentioned that for OpenBSD 5.9 (Mar 29, 2016) go-1.5.4 Is there any alternative for filebeat! Can I configure logstash to push OpenBSD logs to elasticsearch! ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/6 "2017-02-07T13:58:11Z")
> Yes I see it but when I make install from /usr/ports/lang/go > I got 1.5 You can compile a newer Go compiler yourself. > Can I configure logstash to push OpenBSD logs to elasticsearch! It seems Logstash is available from ports so I suppose Logstash works on OpenBSD. In that case you can configure it to ship logs to ES. ---
**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/7 "2017-02-07T15:18:38Z")
The project is using Go 1.7.4 at the moment. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#setting-up-your-dev-environment). ---
**Author:** ![srikanthchandika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@srikanthchandika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthchandika)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/8 "2017-02-08T05:27:12Z")
Thanks for the Information. I am facing issues while compiling go-1.7. I have installed go-1.5 I want to upgrade it 1.7 on OpenBSD 5.9 . I am new to go and openbsd. I am following go official documentation but still facing issues. ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/9 "2017-02-08T06:36:33Z")
Again, you won't get any help until you tell us _what_ issues you're having. We are not psychic, but some of us are impatient. ---
**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/10 "2017-02-08T12:24:20Z")
sounds like you're messing with go development environment setup. You need to set GOPATH and optionally GOROOT in case you have multiple go versions. Use `go version` and `go env` to check your environment. Please, post output, without logs and just prose we have no way to see and confirm what you're doing is right or wrong. Having go1.5 you will have to download and install go1.7 source yourself. [This document](https://golang.org/doc/install/source) explains how to install go from source (you still need go1.5 compiler to build go1.7). Some people use [gimme](https://github.com/travis-ci/gimme) or [gvm](https://github.com/moovweb/gvm). ---
**Author:** ![srikanthchandika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@srikanthchandika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthchandika)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/11 "2017-02-08T13:06:39Z")
I have installed go in OpenBSD with pkg\_add go I got version go1.5.3 Below are my outputs. #go version go version go1.5.3 openbsd/amd64 # go env GOARCH="amd64" GOBIN="" GOEXE="" GOHOSTARCH="amd64" GOHOSTOS="openbsd" GOOS="openbsd" GOPATH="" GORACE="" GOROOT="/usr/local/go" GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/openbsd\_amd64" GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT="" CC="cc" GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0" CXX="c++" CGO\_ENABLED="1" ---
**Author:** ![srikanthchandika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@srikanthchandika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthchandika)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/12 "2017-02-08T13:28:59Z")
After installing go with pkg\_add I followed the official go document Step 1: I have set GOPATH to $HOME/gopath Step 2: I have fetched the go repo Step 3: checked out with 1.7.5 Step 4: Executed **./all.bash** from src directory At this point I faced issue: ./all.bash ##### Building Go bootstrap tool. cmd/dist ERROR: Cannot find /root/go1.4/bin/go. Set $GOROOT\_BOOTSTRAP to a working Go tree \>= Go 1.4. then exported "GOROOT\_BOOTSTRAP=/usr/local/go" ## Again Executed " ./all.bash " it ran for a while smoothly and exited with exit code 1 Below are some output as the output is very huge, couldn't paste everything here export GOROOT\_BOOTSTRAP=/usr/local/go ./all.bash ##### Building Go bootstrap tool. cmd/dist ##### Building Go toolchain using /usr/local/go. ## bootstrap/cmd/internal/dwarf bootstrap/cmd/internal/src bootstrap/cmd/internal/sys ##### Building go\_bootstrap for host, openbsd/amd64. ## runtime/internal/sys runtime/internal/atomic runtime unicode internal/race sync/atomic encoding unicode/utf8 ##### Building packages and commands for openbsd/amd64. ## runtime/internal/sys runtime/internal/atomic runtime errors internal/race sync/atomic ##### Testing packages. ok archive/tar 0.079s ok archive/zip 1.576s ok bufio 0.099s ok bytes 0.412s ok compress/bzip2 0.286s ok compress/flate 2.769s ok compress/gzip 0.123s --- FAIL: TestGoroutineParallelism2 (0.34s) panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [recovered] panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x63cedf] - - -FAIL runtime 5.450s 2017/02/08 18:48:26 Failed: exit status 1 * * * Did I do anything wrong! ---
**Author:** ![srikanthchandika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@srikanthchandika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthchandika)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/13 "2017-02-08T14:30:45Z")
make install gives below errors cd /usr/ports/lang/go make install ===\> Building for go-1.7.4 ##### Building Go bootstrap tool. cmd/dist ERROR: Cannot find /usr/local/go/bootstrap/bin/go. Set $GOROOT\_BOOTSTRAP to a working Go tree \>= Go 1.4. \*\*\* Error 1 in . (Makefile:63 'do-build': @cd /usr/ports/pobj/go-1.7.4/go/src && CC="cc" CXX="c++" GOROOT=/usr/ports/pobj/go-1.7.4/go GO...) \*\*\* Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2683 '/usr/ports/pobj/go-1.7.4/build-amd64/.build\_done') \*\*\* Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:1884 '/usr/ports/packages/amd64/all/go-1.7.4.tgz') \*\*\* Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2409 '\_internal-package') \*\*\* Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2389 'package') \*\*\* Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:1901 '/var/db/pkg/go-1.7.4/+CONTENTS') \*\*\* Error 1 in /home/ports/lang/go (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2389 'install') ---
**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/14 "2017-02-09T14:12:51Z")
> [@srikanthchandika](#): > > --- FAIL: TestGoroutineParallelism2 (0.34s)panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference [recovered] panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x63cedf]- - -FAIL runtime 5.450s This says, some of the go runtime unit tests not working. Not sure if it's a bug. As I don't run go on OpenBSD, [check out this wiki entry](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/OpenBSD). I also see some [oldish filebeat](http://ports.su/sysutils/beats/filebeat) in the ports. Maybe [related](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15227). Having had a look at the [issue list](https://github.com/golang/go/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20OpenBSD), some tests on OpenBSD seem to be flaky. Maybe next time you compile it works or try compiling without running tests... Have you checked the [golang-nuts mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-nuts)? ---
**Author:** ![srikanthchandika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@srikanthchandika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthchandika)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/15 "2017-02-10T04:34:17Z")
I tried repeatedly in different ways like with tests and skipping tests. I didn't check with golang-nuts mailing list. I need some suggestions regarding other agents. I have tried deprecated logstash-forwarder 0.4.0 on test OpenBSD 5.9 machine. It is working absolutely fine. Can I install that on my production system what are the issues I may face on long run! ---
**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/16 "2017-02-13T14:24:55Z")
logstash-forwarder is deprecated, that is, we don't really support this one anymore. The beats input plugin in logstash 5.x is still backwards compatible supporting both, beats and logstash-forwarder. The protocol used by logstash-forwarder has a problem, potentially overloading your logstash in case of logstash being not 'responsive', by resending a batch of events logstash might choke on (e.g. grok taking much too long). log-courier is a fork of logstash-forwarder, trying to address this problem. ---
**Author:** ![srikanthchandika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@srikanthchandika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthchandika)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/17 "2017-02-21T06:50:35Z")
What is your suggestions installing ELK agents on OpenBSD5.9 Which one do I need to install on OpenBSD5.9. I thought of installing logstash to send logs to elastic search but it requires java I don't want to load OpenBSD machine with unnecessary services because that machine is serving for another purpose. I wanted to process logs with lite application like filebeat. ---
**Author:** ![srikanthchandika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@srikanthchandika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthchandika)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/18 "2017-02-21T10:53:32Z")
Hi, I am able to install go1.8 from source code ([https://golang.org/doc/install/source](https://golang.org/doc/install/source)) Built filebeat using go1.8 ---
**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/19 "2017-02-21T14:38:33Z")
Awesome. I guess you hit some bug in go1.7 on OpenBSD. ---
**Author:** ![srikanthchandika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@srikanthchandika](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthchandika)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180/20 "2017-02-22T06:31:58Z")
Is it really a bug in go1.7! [Next page](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-filebeat-on-openbsd-5-9/74180.md?page=2)