This functionality is experimental and may be changed or removed completely in a future release. Elastic will take a best effort approach to fix any issues, but experimental features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

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Step 1: Install Journalbeat

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Step 1: Install Journalbeat

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Before you begin: If you haven’t installed the Elastic Stack, do that now. See Getting started with the Elastic Stack.

To download and install Journalbeat, use the commands that work with your system.

If you use Apt or Yum, you can install Journalbeat from our repositories to update to the newest version more easily.

See our download page for other installation options, such as 32-bit images.

deb:

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/journalbeat/journalbeat-6.8.23-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i journalbeat-6.8.23-amd64.deb

rpm:

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/journalbeat/journalbeat-6.8.23-x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -vi journalbeat-6.8.23-x86_64.rpm

linux:

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/journalbeat/journalbeat-6.8.23-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf journalbeat-6.8.23-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

docker:

See Running on Docker for deploying Docker containers.

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