- Auditbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Getting started with Auditbeat
- Setting up and running Auditbeat
- Upgrading Auditbeat
- Configuring Auditbeat
- Specify which modules to run
- Specify general settings
- Reload the configuration dynamically
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Configure index lifecycle management
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Define processors
- Add cloud metadata
- Add fields
- Add labels
- Add the local time zone
- Add tags
- Decode JSON fields
- Decode Base64 fields
- Decompress gzip fields
- Community ID Network Flow Hash
- Convert
- Drop events
- Drop fields from events
- Extract array
- Keep fields from events
- Registered Domain
- Rename fields from events
- Add Kubernetes metadata
- Add Docker metadata
- Add Host metadata
- Add Observer metadata
- Dissect strings
- DNS Reverse Lookup
- Add process metadata
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Enrich events with geoIP information
- Configure project paths
- Configure the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Configure logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- HTTP Endpoint
- auditbeat.reference.yml
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Monitoring Auditbeat
- Securing Auditbeat
- Troubleshooting
- Get Help
- Debug
- Common problems
- Auditbeat fails to watch folders because too many files are open
- Auditbeat uses too much bandwidth
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- @metadata is missing in Logstash
- Not sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
- SSL client fails to connect to Logstash
- Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
- Contributing to Beats
Configure the output for the Elastic Cloud
editConfigure the output for the Elastic Cloud
editAuditbeat comes with two settings that simplify the output configuration when used together with Elastic Cloud. When defined, these setting overwrite settings from other parts in the configuration.
Example:
cloud.id: "staging:dXMtZWFzdC0xLmF3cy5mb3VuZC5pbyRjZWM2ZjI2MWE3NGJmMjRjZTMzYmI4ODExYjg0Mjk0ZiRjNmMyY2E2ZDA0MjI0OWFmMGNjN2Q3YTllOTYyNTc0Mw==" cloud.auth: "elastic:YOUR_PASSWORD"
These settings can be also specified at the command line, like this:
auditbeat -e -E cloud.id="<cloud-id>" -E cloud.auth="<cloud.auth>"
cloud.id
editThe Cloud ID, which can be found in the Elastic Cloud web console, is used by
Auditbeat to resolve the Elasticsearch and Kibana URLs. This setting
overwrites the output.elasticsearch.hosts and setup.kibana.host settings.
cloud.auth
editWhen specified, the cloud.auth overwrites the output.elasticsearch.username and
output.elasticsearch.password settings. Because the Kibana settings inherit
the username and password from the Elasticsearch output, this can also be used
to set the setup.kibana.username and setup.kibana.password options.
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