- 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
- Decode Base64 fields
- Decompress gzip fields
- Community ID Network Flow Hash
- Convert
- Drop events
- Drop fields from events
- Extract array
- Keep fields from events
- Registered Domain
- Rename fields from events
- Add Kubernetes metadata
- Add Docker metadata
- Add Host metadata
- Add Observer 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
- Jolokia Discovery autodiscover provider 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
- Get help
- Debug
- Record a trace
- Common problems
- Dashboard in Kibana is breaking up data fields incorrectly
- Packetbeat doesn’t see any packets when using mirror ports
- Packetbeat can’t capture traffic from Windows loopback interface
- Packetbeat is missing long running transactions
- Packetbeat isn’t capturing MySQL performance data
- Packetbeat uses too much bandwidth
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- @metadata is missing in Logstash
- Not sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
- SSL client fails to connect to Logstash
- Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
- Fields show up as nested JSON in Kibana
- Contributing to Beats
Step 5: Start Packetbeat
editStep 5: Start Packetbeat
editRun Packetbeat by issuing the command that is appropriate for your platform. If you are accessing a secured Elasticsearch cluster, make sure you’ve configured credentials as described in Step 2: Configure Packetbeat.
If you use an init.d script to start Packetbeat on deb or rpm, you can’t specify command line flags (see Command reference). To specify flags, start Packetbeat in the foreground.
deb and rpm:
sudo service packetbeat start
docker:
See Running Packetbeat on Docker.
mac and linux:
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You’ll be running Packetbeat as root, so you need to change ownership of the
configuration file, or run Packetbeat with |
brew:
To have launchd start elastic/tap/packetbeat and then restart it at login,
run:
brew services start elastic/tap/packetbeat-full
To run Packetbeat in the foreground instead of running it as a background service, run:
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You’ll be running Packetbeat as root, so you need to change ownership
of the configuration file, or run Packetbeat with |
win:
PS C:\Program Files\Packetbeat> Start-Service packetbeat
By default the log files are stored in C:\ProgramData\packetbeat\Logs.
Test the Packetbeat installation
editPacketbeat is now ready to capture data from your network traffic. You can test that it works by creating a simple HTTP request. For example:
curl http://www.elastic.co/ > /dev/null
Now verify that the data is present in Elasticsearch by issuing the following command:
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/packetbeat-*/_search?pretty'
Make sure that you replace localhost:9200 with the address of your Elasticsearch
instance. The command should return data about the HTTP transaction you just created.
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