Step 4: Set up the Kibana dashboards
editStep 4: Set up the Kibana dashboards
editFor deeper observability into your infrastructure, you can use the Metrics app and the Logs app in Kibana. For more details, see the Metrics Monitoring Guide and the Logs Monitoring Guide.
Filebeat comes packaged with example Kibana dashboards, visualizations,
and searches for visualizing Filebeat data in Kibana. Before you can use
the dashboards, you need to create the index pattern, filebeat-*, and
load the dashboards into Kibana. To do this, you can either run the setup
command (as described here) or
configure dashboard loading in the
filebeat.yml config file.
This requires a Kibana endpoint configuration. If you didn’t already configure a Kibana endpoint, see configure Filebeat.
Make sure Kibana is running before you perform this step. If you are accessing a secured Kibana instance, make sure you’ve configured credentials as described in Step 2: Configure Filebeat.
To set up the Kibana dashboards for Filebeat, use the appropriate command for your system. The command shown here loads the dashboards from the Filebeat package. For more options, such as loading customized dashboards, see Importing Existing Beat Dashboards in the Beats Developer Guide. If you’ve configured the Logstash output, see Set up dashboards for Logstash output.
deb and rpm:
filebeat setup --dashboards
mac:
./filebeat setup --dashboards
brew:
filebeat setup --dashboards
linux:
./filebeat setup --dashboards
docker:
docker run --net="host" docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:7.8.1 setup --dashboards
win:
Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator).
From the PowerShell prompt, change to the directory where you installed Filebeat, and run:
PS > .\filebeat.exe setup --dashboards
Set up dashboards for Logstash output
editDuring dashboard loading, Filebeat connects to Elasticsearch to check version information. To load dashboards when the Logstash output is enabled, you need to temporarily disable the Logstash output and enable Elasticsearch. To connect to a secured Elasticsearch cluster, you also need to pass Elasticsearch credentials.
The example shows a hard-coded password, but you should store sensitive values in the secrets keystore.
deb and rpm:
filebeat setup -e \ -E output.logstash.enabled=false \ -E output.elasticsearch.hosts=['localhost:9200'] \ -E output.elasticsearch.username=filebeat_internal \ -E output.elasticsearch.password=YOUR_PASSWORD \ -E setup.kibana.host=localhost:5601
mac:
./filebeat setup -e \ -E output.logstash.enabled=false \ -E output.elasticsearch.hosts=['localhost:9200'] \ -E output.elasticsearch.username=filebeat_internal \ -E output.elasticsearch.password=YOUR_PASSWORD \ -E setup.kibana.host=localhost:5601
brew:
filebeat setup -e \ -E output.logstash.enabled=false \ -E output.elasticsearch.hosts=['localhost:9200'] \ -E output.elasticsearch.username=filebeat_internal \ -E output.elasticsearch.password=YOUR_PASSWORD \ -E setup.kibana.host=localhost:5601
linux:
./filebeat setup -e \ -E output.logstash.enabled=false \ -E output.elasticsearch.hosts=['localhost:9200'] \ -E output.elasticsearch.username=filebeat_internal \ -E output.elasticsearch.password=YOUR_PASSWORD \ -E setup.kibana.host=localhost:5601
docker:
docker run --net="host" docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:7.8.1 setup -e \ -E output.logstash.enabled=false \ -E output.elasticsearch.hosts=['localhost:9200'] \ -E output.elasticsearch.username=filebeat_internal \ -E output.elasticsearch.password=YOUR_PASSWORD \ -E setup.kibana.host=localhost:5601
win:
Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator).
From the PowerShell prompt, change to the directory where you installed Filebeat, and run:
PS > .\filebeat.exe setup -e ` -E output.logstash.enabled=false ` -E output.elasticsearch.hosts=['localhost:9200'] ` -E output.elasticsearch.username=filebeat_internal ` -E output.elasticsearch.password=YOUR_PASSWORD ` -E setup.kibana.host=localhost:5601