Logging Fundamentals Course : Elastic 6.4 no longer a install option

[jasonfed (Jason Fedynak)]

Hello,

Working on the Elastic logging fundamentals course and in Lab1 when you install Elastic - v6.4 is no longer a install option. I proceeded to install the latest v7.2. In Lab2 when I go to download a copy of the filebeat, the document still indicated 6.4.1 as the documented download version. In the Kibana WebUI, (for Lab2) I see the following (correct version)

Getting Started

macOS DEB RPM Windows
Step 1Download and install Filebeat
First time using Filebeat? See the Getting Started Guide.

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curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.2.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf filebeat-7.2.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
cd filebeat-7.2.0-darwin-x86_64/

There is no UNIX version to download. What are the next steps or if I need to restart from scratch - what version of Elastic stack should I install initially?

[abdon (Abdon Pijpelink)]

Hi Jason,

It looks like you downloaded the Mac version of Filebeat. ("darwin" in the filename indicates that this is for Mac). Instead you need to download the Linux version: https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.2.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

[jasonfed (Jason Fedynak)]

Downloaded and installed successfully.

Just went back and confirmed in the Nginx logs portion of the lab, the only options are : macOS DEB RPM Windows

Thanks for the help.

[pmusa (Pablo Musa)]

Hi Jason,

Thank you for taking our trainings and asking questions.

There is a tab for linux instructions in Kibana that you can use to see the correct instructions. Otherwise, you could use this as the url https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.2.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Let me know if it works.

Cheers

[jasonfed (Jason Fedynak)]

Yes, thank you. Filebeat was downloaded and installed successfully.