Step 5: Start Filebeat

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Before starting Filebeat, modify the user credentials in filebeat.yml and specify a user who is authorized to publish events.

To start Filebeat, run:

sudo service filebeat start

If you use an init.d script to start Filebeat, you can’t specify command line flags (see Command reference). To specify flags, start Filebeat in the foreground.

Also see Filebeat and systemd.

Filebeat should begin streaming events to Elasticsearch.