Where to install Filebeat?

Elastic Stack Beats
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Hi,

Sorry about this, but where would I install filebeat?

I have an ELK stack already created and want to track exchange messaging logs: would I install Filebeat on my ELK server or on the Exchange server?

Thanks
Tony

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On the exchange Server.

You can send the logs to the logstash instance or to the elasticsearch cluster.

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Thanks David.

Second dumb question: How would I uninstall it?

Cheers Tony

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it depends on the method you used to install it and the operating system of the server which host it.

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Cheers David - It's on Windows 2012 R2 at C:\Program Files\Filebeat

Thanks

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you should have a script to uninstall the product in this folder. You shoul use it like the installation script as seen in the documentation.

cf. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-installation.html

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