- Journalbeat Reference for 6.5-7.15:
- Journalbeat overview
- Quick start: installation and configuration
- Set up and run
- Configure
- Inputs
- General settings
- Project paths
- Output
- Kerberos
- SSL
- Index lifecycle management (ILM)
- Elasticsearch index template
- Processors
- Define processors
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_cloudfoundry_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_network_direction
- add_nomad_metadata
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_csv_fields
- decode_json_fields
- decode_xml
- decode_xml_wineventlog
- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- script
- timestamp
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Internal queue
- Logging
- HTTP endpoint
- Regular expression support
- Instrumentation
- journalbeat.reference.yml
- How to guides
- Exported fields
- Monitor
- Secure
- Troubleshoot
- Get help
- Debug
- Common problems
- Journalbeat uses too much bandwidth
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- Publishing to Logstash fails with "connection reset by peer" message
- @metadata is missing in Logstash
- Not sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
- SSL client fails to connect to Logstash
- Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
Starting in version 7.16, this experimental functionality has been removed. You
should use the journald input in Filebeat instead.
Start Journalbeat
editStart Journalbeat
editBefore starting Journalbeat:
- Follow the steps in Quick start: installation and configuration to install, configure, and set up the Journalbeat environment.
- Make sure Kibana and Elasticsearch are running.
-
Make sure the user specified in
journalbeat.yml
is authorized to publish events.
To start Journalbeat, run:
sudo service journalbeat start
If you use an init.d
script to start Journalbeat, you can’t specify command
line flags (see Command reference). To specify flags, start Journalbeat in
the foreground.
Also see Journalbeat and systemd.
sudo service journalbeat start
If you use an init.d
script to start Journalbeat, you can’t specify command
line flags (see Command reference). To specify flags, start Journalbeat in
the foreground.
Also see Journalbeat and systemd.
You’ll be running Journalbeat as root, so you need to change ownership
of the configuration file, or run Journalbeat with |
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