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Improve Beats + Logstash getting started steps #5080

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dedemorton opened this issue Sep 1, 2017 · 1 comment
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Improve Beats + Logstash getting started steps #5080

dedemorton opened this issue Sep 1, 2017 · 1 comment
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Feedback from Walter Rafelsberger regarding the metricbeat gs docs:
Have some feedback regarding the metricbeat setup documentation. Here’s what I noticed:
If you want to use beats with logstash, you have to disable the Elasticsearch endpoint in the configuration (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/master/logstash-output.html).
However, then in a later step, configuring the Kibana dashboards (./metricbeat setup —dashboards here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/master/load-kibana-dashboards.html) fails because it still requires the elasticsearch endpoint.
So to make it work I had to revert the changes in the config back and forth regarding the logstash output.

  • Document how to enable/disable by using enabled: false instead of commenting it out.
  • Might also mention using -E "output.elasticsearch.hosts=["http://localhost:9200"]" to override the setting at the command line so the user doesn't have to change the config file.
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The getting started docs now describe what to do if you are using LS output and want to set up dashboards and other assets, so I'm closing this.

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