Keystore wrong location in version 7.2.0

zpraxis · July 15, 2019, 7:34pm

Documentation says:

Filebeat creates the keystore in the directory defined by the path.config configuration setting.

However, keystore is created in /path_where_tar_was_extracted/filebeat-7.2.0-linux-x86_64/data/ .

I have already defined path.config variable accordingly in filebeat.yml, but the behavior is not the expected.

I would suggest either to update the documentation to say that it is stored in path.data (instead of path.config) or to make Filebeat store it in path.config.

Andre_Letterer · July 16, 2019, 1:22am

Hi,
obviously you have found a documentation inaccuracy on page, because source code tells exactly that it will be created under the data path by default.
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/keystore.html
I will open an issue for that so that this will be corrected:

github.com

elastic/beats/blob/7.2/libbeat/tests/system/test_cmd_keystore.py#L17




class TestCommandKeystore(KeystoreBase):
    """
    Test keystore subcommand


    """


    def setUp(self):
        super(TestCommandKeystore, self).setUp()


        self.keystore_path = self.working_dir + "/data/keystore"


        self.render_config_template(keystore_path=self.keystore_path)


        if path.exists(self.keystore_path):
            os.Remove(self.keystore_path)


    def test_keystore_create(self):
        """
        test keystore create command
        """

zpraxis · July 16, 2019, 4:40pm

Thanks!

system · August 13, 2019, 4:41pm

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