- Auditbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Get started
- Set up and run
- Upgrade Auditbeat
- Configure
- Modules
- General settings
- Project paths
- Config file reloading
- Output
- SSL
- Index lifecycle management (ILM)
- Elasticsearch index template
- Kibana endpoint
- Kibana dashboards
- Processors
- Define processors
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_json_fields
- decompress_gzip_field
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- registered_domain
- rename
- truncate_fields
- Internal queue
- Logging
- HTTP endpoint
- Regular expression support
- auditbeat.reference.yml
- How to guides
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Monitor
- Secure
- Troubleshoot
- 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
- Contribute to Beats
Step 1: Install Auditbeat
editStep 1: Install Auditbeat
editInstall Auditbeat on all the servers you want to monitor.
Before you begin: If you haven’t installed the Elastic Stack, do that now. See Get started with the Elastic Stack.
To download and install Auditbeat, use the commands that work with your system.
If you use Apt or Yum, you can install Auditbeat from our repositories to update to the newest version more easily.
See our download page for other installation options, such as 32-bit images.
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/auditbeat/auditbeat-7.6.2-amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i auditbeat-7.6.2-amd64.deb
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/auditbeat/auditbeat-7.6.2-x86_64.rpm sudo rpm -vi auditbeat-7.6.2-x86_64.rpm
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/auditbeat/auditbeat-7.6.2-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz tar xzvf auditbeat-7.6.2-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
brew tap elastic/tap brew install elastic/tap/auditbeat-full
This installs the most recently released default distribution of Auditbeat.
To install the OSS distribution, specify elastic/tap/auditbeat-oss.
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/auditbeat/auditbeat-7.6.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz tar xzvf auditbeat-7.6.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/auditbeat/auditbeat-7.6.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz tar xzvf auditbeat-7.6.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
See Running on Docker for deploying Docker containers.
- Download the Auditbeat Windows zip file from the downloads page.
-
Extract the contents of the zip file into
C:\Program Files. -
Rename the
auditbeat-<version>-windowsdirectory toAuditbeat. - Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator).
-
From the PowerShell prompt, run the following commands to install Auditbeat as a Windows service:
PS > cd 'C:\Program Files\Auditbeat' PS C:\Program Files\Auditbeat> .\install-service-auditbeat.ps1
If script execution is disabled on your system, you need to set the
execution policy for the current session to allow the script to run. For
example: PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted -File
.\install-service-auditbeat.ps1.
Before starting Auditbeat, you should look at the configuration options in the
configuration file, for example C:\Program Files\Auditbeat\auditbeat.yml.
For more information about these options, see
Configure.