Ansible Role: Metricbeat

This role installs and configures Metricbeat 5.x for the Elastic stack.

It has only been designed to work on Ubuntu 16.04, but other Debian flavours should also work.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

metricbeat_modules is a list containing the configuration for each module Metricbeat should collect data on. See the Metricbeat documentation for the structure of each list element.

metricbeat_output is a dictionary of outputs to send events to. See the Metricbeat documentation for the structure and possible outputs.

metricbeat_general_config is the general global configuration of Metricbeat. Eg. the name, extra fields or tags to apply to each event. More info can be found in the Metricbeat documentation.

metricbeat_install_state: This is useful for updating Metricbeat to newer versions after it has already been installed. Use latest to achieve this functionality.

Resources

Documentation related to Metricbeat can be found at the links below:

documentation

Dependencies

None.

Check out my other roles on Ansible Galaxy if you are installing the entire Elastic Stack.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  become: yes

  roles:
    - role: jradtilbrook.metricbeat

License

MIT