Configure which transaction protocols to monitor

The packetbeat.protocols section of the packetbeat.yml config file contains configuration options for each supported protocol, including common options like enabled, ports, send_request, send_response, and options that are protocol-specific.

Currently, Packetbeat supports the following protocols:

ICMP (v4 and v6)
DHCP (v4)
DNS
HTTP
AMQP 0.9.1
Cassandra
Mysql
PostgreSQL
Redis
Thrift-RPC
MongoDB
Memcache
NFS
TLS
SIP/SDP (beta)

Example configuration:

packetbeat.protocols:

- type: icmp
  enabled: true

- type: dhcpv4
  ports: [67, 68]

- type: dns
  ports: [53]

- type: http
  ports: [80, 8080, 8000, 5000, 8002]

- type: amqp
  ports: [5672]

- type: cassandra
  ports: [9042]

- type: memcache
  ports: [11211]

- type: mysql
  ports: [3306,3307]

- type: redis
  ports: [6379]

- type: pgsql
  ports: [5432]

- type: thrift
  ports: [9090]

- type: tls
  ports: [443, 993, 995, 5223, 8443, 8883, 9243]

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