RHEL6 MetricBeat Service Start Issues

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Hi,

We are having issues getting the MetricBeat service to start on RHEL 6 servers.

We installed metricbeat-7.17.0-x86_64.rpm and filebeat-7.17.0-x86_64.rpm. The FileBeat service starts successfully. However the MetricBeat shows the below.

service metricbeat start
Starting metricbeat: /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat)

As you know RHEL6 is out of support. Even if we did manage to upgrade GLIBC to required version this could potentially break other stuff.

Any ideas please ?

Thanks

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Hi,

One possible solution could be to use an older version of Metricbeat that is compatible with the GLIBC version available on your RHEL 6 servers. However, this might not be the best solution as older versions might lack some features and improvements.

Regards

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Yago82 what version would you recommend here then ?

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Hi,

RHEL 6 comes with GLIBC version 2.12 by default. Metricbeat version 6.8 is the last version that supports GLIBC 2.12. So, you could try installing Metricbeat 6.8.

Regards

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Thanks for the suggestion yago82. we will try that.

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