Hello everyone, Im not sure what the difference is between starting filebeat using: service start filebeat AND ./filebeat -e -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml -d "publish" the latter seems to work better than the first one tho (to me atleast) any idea why and how can i make it run in the background? A…

Hello, I spun up a docker container for Ubuntu 18.04 to ensure the configuration shipped with filebeat 7.3.2 allowed you to run filebeat as a service. I'd recommend starting with a default configuration to ensure filebeat starts as as a service. It looks like the service should be started with serv…

You're very welcome. Glad it's working! :slight_smile:

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You're very welcome. Glad it's working!

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