- Filebeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Contributing to Beats
- Getting Started With Filebeat
- Step 1: Install Filebeat
- Step 2: Configure Filebeat
- Step 3: Configure Filebeat to use Logstash
- Step 4: Load the index template in Elasticsearch
- Step 5: Set up the Kibana dashboards
- Step 6: Start Filebeat
- Step 7: View the sample Kibana dashboards
- Quick start for common log formats
- Repositories for APT and YUM
- Setting up and running Filebeat
- Upgrading Filebeat
- How Filebeat works
- Configuring Filebeat
- Specify which modules to run
- Set up prospectors
- Manage multiline messages
- Specify general settings
- Load external configuration files
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Load balance the output hosts
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Parse logs by using ingest node
- Set up project paths
- Set up the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Set up logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- Autodiscover
- YAML tips and gotchas
- Regular expression support
- filebeat.reference.yml
- Modules
- Exported fields
- Securing Filebeat
- Troubleshooting
- Migrating from Logstash Forwarder to Filebeat
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Running Filebeat on Docker
editRunning Filebeat on Docker
editDocker images for Filebeat are available from the Elastic Docker
registry. You can retrieve an image with a docker pull command.
docker pull docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:6.1.4
The base image is centos:7 and the source code can be found on GitHub.
Configure Filebeat on Docker
editThe Docker image provides several methods for configuring Filebeat. The conventional approach is to provide a configuration file via a bind-mounted volume, but it’s also possible to create a custom image with your configuration included.
Bind-mounted configuration
editOne way to configure Filebeat on Docker is to provide filebeat.yml via bind-mounting.
With docker run, the bind-mount can be specified like this:
docker run \ -v ~/filebeat.yml:/usr/share/filebeat/filebeat.yml \ docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:6.1.4
Custom image configuration
editIt’s possible to embed your Filebeat configuration in a custom image. Here is an example Dockerfile to achieve this:
FROM docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:6.1.4 COPY filebeat.yml /usr/share/filebeat/filebeat.yml USER root RUN chown filebeat /usr/share/filebeat/filebeat.yml USER filebeat