- 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
Configure the Kibana endpoint
editConfigure the Kibana endpoint
editStarting with Packetbeat 6.0.0, the Kibana dashboards are loaded into Kibana via the Kibana API. This requires a Kibana endpoint configuration.
You configure the endpoint in the setup.kibana section of the
packetbeat.yml config file.
Here is an example configuration:
setup.kibana.host: "http://localhost:5601"
Configuration options
editYou can specify the following options in the setup.kibana section of the
packetbeat.yml config file:
setup.kibana.host
editThe Kibana host where the dashboards will be loaded. The default is
127.0.0.1:5601. The value of host can be a URL or IP:PORT. For example: http://192.15.3.2, 192:15.3.2:5601 or http://192.15.3.2:6701/path. If no
port is specified, 5601 is used.
When a node is defined as an IP:PORT, the scheme and path are taken
from the setup.kibana.protocol and
setup.kibana.path config options.
IPv6 addresses must be defined using the following format:
https://[2001:db8::1]:5601.
setup.kibana.protocol
editThe name of the protocol Kibana is reachable on. The options are: http or
https. The default is http. However, if you specify a URL for host, the
value of protocol is overridden by whatever scheme you specify in the URL.
Example config:
setup.kibana.host: "192.0.2.255:5601" setup.kibana.protocol: "http" setup.kibana.path: /kibana
setup.kibana.username
editThe basic authentication username for connecting to Kibana. If you don’t
specify a value for this setting, Packetbeat uses the username specified
for the Elasticsearch output.
setup.kibana.password
editThe basic authentication password for connecting to Kibana. If you don’t
specify a value for this setting, Packetbeat uses the password specified
for the Elasticsearch output.
setup.kibana.path
editAn HTTP path prefix that is prepended to the HTTP API calls. This is useful for the cases where Kibana listens behind an HTTP reverse proxy that exports the API under a custom prefix.
setup.kibana.ssl.enabled
editEnables Packetbeat to use SSL settings when connecting to Kibana via HTTPS.
If you configure Packetbeat to connect over HTTPS, this setting defaults to
true and Packetbeat uses the default SSL settings.
Example configuration:
setup.kibana.host: "https://192.0.2.255:5601" setup.kibana.ssl.enabled: true setup.kibana.ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"] setup.kibana.ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem" setup.kibana.ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key
See Specify SSL settings for more information.
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