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Secure Filebeat

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Secure Filebeat

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The following topics provide information about securing the Filebeat process and connecting to a cluster that has security features enabled.

You can use role-based access control and optionally, API keys to grant Filebeat users access to secured resources.

Grant users access to secured resources
Grant access using API keys.

After privileged users have been created, use authentication to connect to a secured Elastic cluster.

Secure communication with Elasticsearch
Secure communication with Logstash

On Linux, Filebeat can take advantage of secure computing mode to restrict the system calls that a process can issue.

Use Linux Secure Computing Mode (seccomp)

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