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A module to install and manage the filebeat log shipper
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released Jan 20th 2016
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  • r10k or Code Manager
  • Bolt
  • Manual installation
  • Direct download

Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'pcfens-filebeat', '0.3.1'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add pcfens-filebeat
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install pcfens-filebeat --version 0.3.1

Direct download is not typically how you would use a Puppet module to manage your infrastructure, but you may want to download the module in order to inspect the code.

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Tags: elasticsearch, logstash, elastic, filebeat

Documentation

pcfens/filebeat — version 0.3.1 Jan 20th 2016

puppet-filebeat

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Table of Contents

  1. Description
  2. Setup - The basics of getting started with filebeat
  3. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
  4. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
  5. Development - Guide for contributing to the module

Description

The filebeat module installs and configures the filebeat log shipper maintained by elastic.

Setup

What filebeat affects

By default filebeat adds a software repository to your system, and installs filebeat along with required configurations.

Setup Requirements

The filebeat module depends on puppetlabs/stdlib, and on puppetlabs/apt on Debian based systems.

Beginning with filebeat

filebeat can be installed with puppet module install pcfens-filebeat (or with r10k, librarian-puppet, etc.)

The only required parameter, other than which files to ship, is the outputs parameter.

Usage

All of the default values in filebeat follow the upstream defaults (at the time of writing).

To ship files to elasticsearch:

class { 'filebeat':
  outputs => {
    'elasticsearch' => {
     'hosts' => [
       'http://localhost:9200',
       'http://anotherserver:9200'
     ],
     'index'       => 'packetbeat',
     'cas'         => [
        '/etc/pki/root/ca.pem',
     ],
    },
  },
}

To ship log files through logstash:

class { 'filebeat':
  outputs => {
    'logstash'     => {
     'hosts' => [
       'localhost:5044',
       'anotherserver:5044'
     ],
     'loadbalance' => true,
    },
  },
}

Shipper and logging options can be configured the same way, and are documented on the elastic website.

Adding a prospector

Prospectors are processes that ship log files to elasticsearch or logstash. They can be defined as a hash added to the class declaration (also used for automatically creating prospectors using hiera), or as their own defined resources.

At a minimum, the paths parameter must be set to an array of files or blobs that should be shipped. log_type is what logstash views as the type parameter if you'd like to apply conditional filters.

filebeat::prospector { 'syslogs':
  paths    => [
    '/var/log/auth.log',
    '/var/log/syslog',
  ],
  log_type => 'syslog-beat',
}

Limitations

This module doesn't load the elasticsearch index template into elasticsearch (required when shipping directly to elasticsearch).

Only filebeat versions after 1.0.0-rc1 are supported. 1.0.0-rc1 and older don't support YAML like the ruby template can easily generate.

Development

Pull requests and bug reports are welcome. If you're sending a pull request, please consider writing tests if applicable.