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.
Start Journalbeat
editStart Journalbeat
editBefore starting Journalbeat:
- Follow the steps in Quick start: installation and configuration to install, configure, and set up the Journalbeat environment.
- Make sure Kibana and Elasticsearch are running.
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Make sure the user specified in
journalbeat.ymlis authorized to publish events.
To start Journalbeat, run:
sudo service journalbeat start
If you use an init.d script to start Journalbeat, you can’t specify command
line flags (see Command reference). To specify flags, start Journalbeat in
the foreground.
Also see Journalbeat and systemd.
sudo service journalbeat start
If you use an init.d script to start Journalbeat, you can’t specify command
line flags (see Command reference). To specify flags, start Journalbeat in
the foreground.
Also see Journalbeat and systemd.
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You’ll be running Journalbeat as root, so you need to change ownership
of the configuration file, or run Journalbeat with |