- Packetbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Getting started with Packetbeat
- Setting up and running Packetbeat
- Upgrading Packetbeat
- Configuring Packetbeat
- Set traffic capturing options
- Set up flows to monitor network traffic
- Specify which transaction protocols to monitor
- Specify which processes to monitor
- Specify general settings
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Configure index lifecycle management
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Define processors
- Add cloud metadata
- Add fields
- Add labels
- Add the local time zone
- Add tags
- Decode JSON fields
- Drop events
- Drop fields from events
- Keep fields from events
- Rename fields from events
- Add Kubernetes metadata
- Add Docker metadata
- Add Host metadata
- Dissect strings
- DNS Reverse Lookup
- Add process metadata
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Enrich events with geoIP information
- Configure project paths
- Configure the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Configure logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- YAML tips and gotchas
- HTTP Endpoint
- packetbeat.reference.yml
- Exported fields
- AMQP fields
- Beat fields
- Cassandra fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Common fields
- DHCPv4 fields
- DNS fields
- Docker fields
- ECS fields
- Flow Event fields
- Host fields
- HTTP fields
- ICMP fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Memcache fields
- MongoDb fields
- MySQL fields
- NFS fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Process fields
- Raw fields
- Redis fields
- Thrift-RPC fields
- TLS fields
- Transaction Event fields
- Measurements (Transactions) fields
- Monitoring Packetbeat
- Securing Packetbeat
- Visualizing Packetbeat data in Kibana
- Troubleshooting
- Contributing to Beats
Configure Packetbeat to use X-Pack security
editConfigure Packetbeat to use X-Pack security
editIf you want Packetbeat to connect to a cluster that has X-Pack security enabled, there are extra configuration steps:
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Grant users access to secured resources.
You can use role-based access control to grant Packetbeat users access to secured resources.
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Configure authentication credentials.
To interact with a secured cluster, Packetbeat must either provide basic authentication credentials or present a client certificate.
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Configure Packetbeat to use encrypted connections.
If encryption is enabled on the cluster, you need to enable HTTPS in the Packetbeat configuration.
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Set the password for the built-in monitoring user.
Packetbeat uses the
beats_systemuser to send monitoring data to Elasticsearch. If you plan to monitor Packetbeat in Kibana and have not yet set up the password, set it up now.
For more information about X-Pack security, see Securing the Elastic Stack.