Configure the output for the Elastic Cloud

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Configure the output for the Elastic Cloud

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Journalbeat comes with two settings that simplify the output configuration when used together with Elastic Cloud. When defined, these setting overwrite settings from other parts in the configuration.

Example:

cloud.id: "staging:dXMtZWFzdC0xLmF3cy5mb3VuZC5pbyRjZWM2ZjI2MWE3NGJmMjRjZTMzYmI4ODExYjg0Mjk0ZiRjNmMyY2E2ZDA0MjI0OWFmMGNjN2Q3YTllOTYyNTc0Mw=="
cloud.auth: "elastic:YOUR_PASSWORD"

These settings can be also specified at the command line, like this:

journalbeat -e -E cloud.id="<cloud-id>" -E cloud.auth="<cloud.auth>"

cloud.id

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The Cloud ID, which can be found in the Elastic Cloud web console, is used by Journalbeat to resolve the Elasticsearch and Kibana URLs. This setting overwrites the output.elasticsearch.hosts and setup.kibana.host settings.

The base64 encoded cloud.id found in the Elastic Cloud web console does not explicitly specify a port. This means that Journalbeat will default to using port 443 when using cloud.id, not the commonly configured cloud endpoint port 9243.

cloud.auth

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When specified, the cloud.auth overwrites the output.elasticsearch.username and output.elasticsearch.password settings. Because the Kibana settings inherit the username and password from the Elasticsearch output, this can also be used to set the setup.kibana.username and setup.kibana.password options.