- 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
Configure Auditbeat
editConfigure Auditbeat
editBefore modifying configuration settings, make sure you’ve completed the configuration steps in the Getting Started. This section describes some common use cases for changing configuration options.
To configure Auditbeat, you edit the configuration file. For rpm and deb,
you’ll find the configuration file at /etc/auditbeat/auditbeat.yml.
There’s also a full example configuration file at
/etc/auditbeat/auditbeat.reference.yml that shows all non-deprecated
options. For mac and win, look in the archive that you extracted.
The Auditbeat configuration file uses YAML for its syntax. See the Config File Format section of the Beats Platform Reference for more about the structure of the config file.
The following topics describe how to configure Auditbeat:
After changing configuration settings, you need to restart Auditbeat to pick up the changes.