I am running a RHEL VM with Filebeats installed and three Podman containers running Kibana, Elasticsearch, and Logstash. Almost everything works, except for sending files from Filebeats to my Logstash container's pipeline. I have tried and ensured the following: I verified my host machine's port …

Logstash container not receiving log files from Filebeats running on host

David_Locarno (David Locarno) September 15, 2023, 10:48pm 2

I figured out I was missing the

enabled: true

configuration line in the output section of filebeat.yml
I had it under the input, but, was not aware it was also needed under the output.

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