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.
Use internal collection to send monitoring data
editUse internal collection to send monitoring data
editUse internal collectors to send Beats monitoring data directly to your monitoring cluster.
To learn about monitoring in general, see Monitoring the Elastic Stack.
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Create a user that has appropriate authority to send system-level monitoring
data to Elasticsearch. For example, you can use the built-in
beats_system
user or assign the built-inbeats_system
role to another user. For more information, see Setting Up User Authentication and Built-in Roles. -
Add the
monitoring
settings in the Journalbeat configuration file. If you configured the Elasticsearch output and want to send Journalbeat monitoring events to the same Elasticsearch cluster, specify the following minimal configuration:monitoring: enabled: true elasticsearch: username: beats_system password: somepassword
If you configured a different output, such as Logstash or you want to send Journalbeat monitoring events to a separate Elasticsearch cluster (referred to as the monitoring cluster), you must specify additional configuration options. For example:
- Start Journalbeat.
- View the monitoring data in Kibana.