Quickstart

Apply the following specification to deploy Filebeat and collect the logs of all containers running in the Kubernetes cluster. ECK automatically configures the secured connection to an Elasticsearch cluster named quickstart, created in the Elasticsearch quickstart.

cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: beat.k8s.elastic.co/v1beta1
kind: Beat
metadata:
  name: quickstart
spec:
  type: filebeat
  version: 8.17.0
  elasticsearchRef:
    name: quickstart
  config:
    filebeat.inputs:
    - type: container
      paths:
      - /var/log/containers/*.log
  daemonSet:
    podTemplate:
      spec:
        dnsPolicy: ClusterFirstWithHostNet
        hostNetwork: true
        securityContext:
          runAsUser: 0
        containers:
        - name: filebeat
          volumeMounts:
          - name: varlogcontainers
            mountPath: /var/log/containers
          - name: varlogpods
            mountPath: /var/log/pods
          - name: varlibdockercontainers
            mountPath: /var/lib/docker/containers
        volumes:
        - name: varlogcontainers
          hostPath:
            path: /var/log/containers
        - name: varlogpods
          hostPath:
            path: /var/log/pods
        - name: varlibdockercontainers
          hostPath:
            path: /var/lib/docker/containers
EOF

See Configuration Examples for more ready-to-use manifests.

Monitor Beats.

Retrieve details about the Filebeat.

kubectl get beat

NAME                  HEALTH   AVAILABLE   EXPECTED   TYPE       VERSION   AGE
quickstart            green    3           3          filebeat   8.17.0     2m

List all the Pods belonging to a given Beat.

kubectl get pods --selector='beat.k8s.elastic.co/name=quickstart-beat-filebeat'

NAME                                      READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
quickstart-beat-filebeat-tkz65            1/1     Running   0          3m45s
quickstart-beat-filebeat-kx5jt            1/1     Running   0          3m45s
quickstart-beat-filebeat-nb6qh            1/1     Running   0          3m45s

Access logs for one of the Pods.

kubectl logs -f quickstart-beat-filebeat-tkz65

Access logs ingested by Filebeat.

You have two options:
- Follow the Elasticsearch deployment guide and run:
```
curl -u "elastic:$PASSWORD" -k "https://localhost:9200/filebeat-*/_search"
```
- Follow the Kibana deployment guide, log in and go to Kibana > Discover.

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