Secure Filebeat

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The following topics provide information about securing the Filebeat process and connecting to a cluster that has security features enabled.

You can use role-based access control and optionally, API keys to grant Filebeat users access to secured resources.

After privileged users have been created, use authentication to connect to a secured Elastic cluster.

On Linux, Filebeat can take advantage of secure computing mode to restrict the system calls that a process can issue.