An Ansible Role that installs FileBeat on Red Hat/CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu.
- EL / Centos (6 / 7)
- Debian (Wheezy / Jessie)
- Ubuntu (Trusty / Xenial)
- Solaris
Available variables are listed below, along with their default values as
definied in defaults/main.yml
.
FileBeat user and group. If you run FileBeat with a user other than root make sure your logs are readable by the FileBeat user. Add the FileBeat user to a privileged group, with access to your logs.
On Ubuntu you would add the user to the adm
group. On CentOS you can adjust
the permissions with the setfacl
command, e.g. sudo setfacl -m g:filebeat:r <path>
.
filebeat_user: root
filebeat_group: root
Create the filebeat
user and group.
filebeat_create_user: true
FileBeat version to use.
filebeat_version: 6.3.0
Make use of the FileBeat apt repo.
You may use a URL to install a specific version. To do so, change
filebeat_use_repo
value to false
, then (optionally) adjust the
value of filebeat_package_baseurl
(which has a default value set for you).
filebeat_use_repo: true
FileBeat base URL for package download if filebeat_use_repo: false
filebeat_deb_baseurl: "https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat"
Start FileBeat at boot time.
filebeat_start_at_boot: true
FileBeat version upgrade. This option allows package upgrades.
filebeat_upgrade: false
FileBeat configuration file.
filebeat_config_file: /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml
FileBeat registry file.
filebeat_config_registry_file: /var/lib/filebeat/registry
The FileBeat configuration is built based on the template.
FileBeat templates (a list of templates to install). These templates will be copied to the /etc/filebeat directory and can be used in the elasticsearch output for example.
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/elasticsearch-output.html#_template
filebeat_templates: []
- hosts: logging
roles:
- { role: torian.filebeat }
See License
This role was created in 2016 by Emiliano Castagnari.