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Kibana is trying to use filebeat for dashboard but it doesn't work. Can I fix this error? I added the error and filebeat.yml content. How to fix this? I can't see an error in filebeat.yml? I've done the necessary configurations, but I can't run. Filebeat- * command does not work when creating index pattern in kibana

filebeat version 1.3.1 (amd64)

dev@dev-Machine:~$ service filebeat status



filebeat.service - filebeat

   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/filebeat.service; enabled; vendor preset: enable

   Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Fri 2018-11-23 02:34:06 +03; 7h ago

     Docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/index.html

  Process: 822 ExecStart=/usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml (code=exited, 

 Main PID: 822 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)



Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Unit entered failed state.

Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Failed with result 'exit-cod

Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Service hold-off time over, 

Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: Stopped filebeat.

Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Start request repeated too q

Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: Failed to start filebeat.

Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Unit entered failed state.

Nov 23 02:34:06 dev-Machine systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Failed with result 'start-li

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filebeat.yml

################### Filebeat Configuration Example #########################



############################# Filebeat ######################################

filebeat:

  # List of prospectors to fetch data.

  prospectors:

    # Each - is a prospector. Below are the prospector specific configurations

    -

      # Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.

      # To fetch all ".log" files from a specific level of subdirectories

      # /var/log/*/*.log can be used.

      # For each file found under this path, a harvester is started.

      # Make sure not file is defined twice as this can lead to unexpected behaviour.

      paths:

    - /var/log/*.log

        #- c:programdataelasticsearchlogs*



      # Type of the files. Based on this the way the file is read is decided.

      # The different types cannot be mixed in one prospector

      #

      # Possible options are:

      # * log: Reads every line of the log file (default)

      # * stdin: Reads the standard in

      input_type: log



      # exclude_lines. By default, no lines are dropped.

      # exclude_lines: ["^DBG"]



      # Include lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It exports the lines that are

      # matching any regular expression from the list. The include_lines is called before

      # exclude_lines. By default, all the lines are exported.

      # include_lines: ["^ERR", "^WARN"]



      # Exclude files. A list of regular expressions to match. Filebeat drops the files that

      # are matching any regular expression from the list. By default, no files are dropped.

      # exclude_files: [".gz$"]



      # Optional additional fields. These field can be freely picked

      # to add additional information to the crawled log files for filtering

      #fields:

      #  level: debug

      #  review: 1



      # fields.

      #fields_under_root: false



      # Time strings like 2h (2 hours), 5m (5 minutes) can be used.

      #ignore_older: 0



      # Close older closes the file handler for which were not modified

      # for longer then close_older

      # Time strings like 2h (2 hours), 5m (5 minutes) can be used.

      #close_older: 1h



      # Type to be published in the 'type' field. For Elasticsearch output,

      # the type defines the document type these entries should be stored

      # in. Default: log

      #document_type: log



      # to 0s, it is done as often as possible. Default: 10s

      #scan_frequency: 10s



      # Defines the buffer size every harvester uses when fetching the file

      #harvester_buffer_size: 16384



      # Maximum number of bytes a single log event can have

      # All bytes after max_bytes are discarded and not sent. The default is 10MB.

      # This is especially useful for multiline log messages which can get large.

      #max_bytes: 10485760



      # Mutiline can be used for log messages spanning multiple lines. This is common

      # for Java Stack Traces or C-Line Continuation

      #multiline:



        # The regexp Pattern that has to be matched. The example pattern matches all lines starting with [

        #pattern: ^[



        # Defines if the pattern set under pattern should be negated or not. Default is false.

        #negate: false



        # Default is 500

        #max_lines: 500



        # Default is 5s.

        #timeout: 5s



      #tail_files: false



      # Every time a new line appears, backoff is reset to the initial value.

      #backoff: 1s

      # file after having backed off multiple times, it takes a maximum of 10s to read the new line

      #max_backoff: 10s



      # The backoff factor defines how fast the algorithm backs off. The bigger the backoff factor,

      # the faster the max_backoff value is reached. If this value is set to 1, no backoff will happen.

      # The backoff value will be multiplied each time with the backoff_factor until max_backoff is reached

      #backoff_factor: 2



      # This option closes a file, as soon as the file name changes.

      # This config option is recommended on windows only. Filebeat keeps the files it's reading open. This can cause

      # issues when the file is removed, as the file will not be fully removed until also Filebeat closes

      # the reading. Filebeat closes the file handler after ignore_older. During this time no new file with the

      # same name can be created. Turning this feature on the other hand can lead to loss of data

      # on rotate files. It can happen that after file rotation the beginning of the new

      # file is skipped, as the reading starts at the end. We recommend to leave this option on false

      # but lower the ignore_older value to release files faster.

      #force_close_files: false



    # Additional prospector

    #-

      # Configuration to use stdin input

      #input_type: stdin



  # General filebeat configuration options

  #

  # Event count spool threshold - forces network flush if exceeded

  #spool_size: 2048



  # Enable async publisher pipeline in filebeat (Experimental!)

  #publish_async: false



  # Defines how often the spooler is flushed. After idle_timeout the spooler is

  # Flush even though spool_size is not reached.

  #idle_timeout: 5s



  # Name of the registry file. Per default it is put in the current working

  # directory. In case the working directory is changed after when running

  # filebeat again, indexing starts from the beginning again.

  registry_file: /var/lib/filebeat/registry



  # Full Path to directory with additional prospector configuration files. Each file must end with .yml

  # These config files must have the full filebeat config part inside, but only

  # the prospector part is processed. All global options like spool_size are ignored.

  # The config_dir MUST point to a different directory then where the main filebeat config file is in.

  #config_dir:



###############################################################################

############################# Libbeat Config ##################################

# Base config file used by all other beats for using libbeat features



############################# Output ##########################################



# Configure what outputs to use when sending the data collected by the beat.

# Multiple outputs may be used.

output:



  ### Elasticsearch as output

#  elasticsearch:

    # Array of hosts to connect to.

    # Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 9200)

    # In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: http://localhost:9200/path

    # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:9200

#    hosts: ["localhost:9200"]



    # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.

    #protocol: "https"

    #username: "test"

    #password: "test"



    # Number of workers per Elasticsearch host.

    #worker: 1



    # Optional index name. The default is "filebeat" and generates

    # [filebeat-]YYYY.MM.DD keys.

    #index: "filebeat"



    # A template is used to set the mapping in Elasticsearch

    # By default template loading is disabled and no template is loaded.

    # These settings can be adjusted to load your own template or overwrite existing ones

    #template:



      # Template name. By default the template name is filebeat.

      #name: "filebeat"



      # Path to template file

      #path: "filebeat.template.json"



      # Overwrite existing template

      #overwrite: false



    # Optional HTTP Path

    #path: "/elasticsearch"



    # Proxy server url

    #proxy_url: http://proxy:3128



    # The number of times a particular Elasticsearch index operation is attempted. If

    # the indexing operation doesn't succeed after this many retries, the events are

    # dropped. The default is 3.

    #max_retries: 3



    # The maximum number of events to bulk in a single Elasticsearch bulk API index request.

    # The default is 50.

    #bulk_max_size: 50



    # Configure http request timeout before failing an request to Elasticsearch.

    #timeout: 90



    # The number of seconds to wait for new events between two bulk API index requests.

    # If `bulk_max_size` is reached before this interval expires, addition bulk index

    # requests are made.

    #flush_interval: 1



    # Boolean that sets if the topology is kept in Elasticsearch. The default is

    # false. This option makes sense only for Packetbeat.

    #save_topology: false



    # The time to live in seconds for the topology information that is stored in

    # Elasticsearch. The default is 15 seconds.

    #topology_expire: 15



    # tls configuration. By default is off.

    #tls:

      # List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications

      #certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]



      # Certificate for TLS client authentication

      #certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"



      # Client Certificate Key

      #certificate_key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"



      # Controls whether the client verifies server certificates and host name.

      # If insecure is set to true, all server host names and certificates will be

      # accepted. In this mode TLS based connections are susceptible to

      # man-in-the-middle attacks. Use only for testing.

      #insecure: true



      # Configure cipher suites to be used for TLS connections

      #cipher_suites: 



      # Configure curve types for ECDHE based cipher suites

      #curve_types: 



      # Configure minimum TLS version allowed for connection to logstash

      #min_version: 1.0



      # Configure maximum TLS version allowed for connection to logstash

      #max_version: 1.2





  ### Logstash as output

  logstash:

    # The Logstash hosts

    hosts: ["localhost:5044"]



    # Number of workers per Logstash host.

    #worker: 1



    # The maximum number of events to bulk into a single batch window. The

    # default is 2048.

    #bulk_max_size: 2048



    # Set gzip compression level.

    #compression_level: 3



    # Optional load balance the events between the Logstash hosts

    #loadbalance: true



    # Optional index name. The default index name depends on the each beat.

    # For Packetbeat, the default is set to packetbeat, for Topbeat

    # top topbeat and for Filebeat to filebeat.

    #index: filebeat



    # Optional TLS. By default is off.

    #tls:

      # List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications

      #certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]



      # Certificate for TLS client authentication

      #certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"



      # Client Certificate Key

      #certificate_key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"



      # Controls whether the client verifies server certificates and host name.

      # If insecure is set to true, all server host names and certificates will be

      # accepted. In this mode TLS based connections are susceptible to

      # man-in-the-middle attacks. Use only for testing.

      #insecure: true



      # Configure cipher suites to be used for TLS connections

      #cipher_suites: 



      # Configure curve types for ECDHE based cipher suites

      #curve_types: 





  ### File as output

  #file:

    # Path to the directory where to save the generated files. The option is mandatory.

    #path: "/tmp/filebeat"



    # Name of the generated files. The default is `filebeat` and it generates files: `filebeat`, `filebeat.1`, `filebeat.2`, etc.

    #filename: filebeat



    # Maximum size in kilobytes of each file. When this size is reached, the files are

    # rotated. The default value is 10 MB.

    #rotate_every_kb: 10000



    # Maximum number of files under path. When this number of files is reached, the

    # oldest file is deleted and the rest are shifted from last to first. The default

    # is 7 files.

    #number_of_files: 7





  ### Console output

  # console:

    # Pretty print json event

    #pretty: false





############################# Shipper #########################################



shipper:

  # The name of the shipper that publishes the network data. It can be used to group

  # all the transactions sent by a single shipper in the web interface.

  # If this options is not defined, the hostname is used.

  #name:



  # The tags of the shipper are included in their own field with each

  # transaction published. Tags make it easy to group servers by different

  # logical properties.

  #tags: ["service-X", "web-tier"]



  # Uncomment the following if you want to ignore transactions created

  # by the server on which the shipper is installed. This option is useful

  # to remove duplicates if shippers are installed on multiple servers.

  #ignore_outgoing: true



  # How often (in seconds) shippers are publishing their IPs to the topology map.

  # The default is 10 seconds.

  #refresh_topology_freq: 10



  # Expiration time (in seconds) of the IPs published by a shipper to the topology map.

  # All the IPs will be deleted afterwards. Note, that the value must be higher than

  # refresh_topology_freq. The default is 15 seconds.

  #topology_expire: 15



  # Internal queue size for single events in processing pipeline

  #queue_size: 1000



  # Configure local GeoIP database support.

  # If no paths are not configured geoip is disabled.

  #geoip:

    #paths:

    #  - "/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat"

    #  - "/usr/local/var/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat"





############################# Logging #########################################



# There are three options for the log ouput: syslog, file, stderr.

# Under Windos systems, the log files are per default sent to the file output,

# under all other system per default to syslog.

logging:



  # Send all logging output to syslog. On Windows default is false, otherwise

  # default is true.

  #to_syslog: true



  # Write all logging output to files. Beats automatically rotate files if rotateeverybytes

  # limit is reached.

  #to_files: false



  # To enable logging to files, to_files option has to be set to true

  files:

    # The directory where the log files will written to.

    #path: /var/log/mybeat



    # The name of the files where the logs are written to.

    #name: mybeat



    # Configure log file size limit. If limit is reached, log file will be

    # automatically rotated

    rotateeverybytes: 10485760 # = 10MB



    # Number of rotated log files to keep. Oldest files will be deleted first.

    #keepfiles: 7



  # Enable debug output for selected components. To enable all selectors use ["*"]

  # Other available selectors are beat, publish, service

  # Multiple selectors can be chained.

  #selectors: [ ]



  # Sets log level. The default log level is error.

  # Available log levels are: critical, error, warning, info, debug

  #level: error

First of all, I guess you're using filebeat 1.x (which is a very old version of filebeat).

Cleaning your configuration file, it seems that you have a wrongly formated configuration file.

Your current configuration:

filebeat:

  prospectors:

      paths:

    - /var/log/*.log

      input_type: log

  registry_file: /var/lib/filebeat/registry

output:

  logstash:

    hosts: ["localhost:5044"]

shipper:

logging:

  files:

I can see that you have wrong identation and a missing prospector start dash "-".

I tested this configuration with filebeat-1.3.1-x86_64 and it works.

Can you please try to update your configuration file to:

filebeat:

  prospectors:

    -

      input_type: log

      paths:

        - /var/log/*.log



  registry_file: /var/lib/filebeat/registry



output:

  logstash:

    hosts:

      - "localhost:5044"