Configure inputs for standalone Elastic Agents
editConfigure inputs for standalone Elastic Agents
editThe inputs
section of the elastic-agent.yml
file specifies how Elastic Agent locates and processes input data.
Sample metrics input configuration
editBy default Elastic Agent collects system metrics, such as CPU, memory, network, and file system metrics, and sends them to the default output. For example, to define datastreams for cpu
, memory
, network
and filesystem
metrics, this is the configuration:
- type: system/metrics id: unique-system-metrics-id data_stream.namespace: default use_output: default streams: - metricsets: - cpu data_stream.dataset: system.cpu - metricsets: - memory data_stream.dataset: system.memory - metricsets: - network data_stream.dataset: system.network - metricsets: - filesystem data_stream.dataset: system.filesystem
The name of the input. Refer to Elastic Agent inputs for the list of what’s available. |
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A unique ID for the input. |
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A user-defined namespace. |
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The name of the |
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The set of enabled module metricsets. Refer to the Metricbeat System module for a list of available options. The metricset fields can be configured. |
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A user-defined dataset. It can contain anything that makes sense to signify the source of the data. |
Sample log files input configuration
editTo enable Elastic Agent to collect log files, you can use a configuration like the following.
- type: filestream id: your-input-id streams: - id: your-filestream-stream-id data_stream: dataset: generic paths: - /var/log/*.log
The name of the input. Refer to Elastic Agent inputs for the list of what’s available. |
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A unique ID for the input. |
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A unique ID for the data stream to track the state of the ingested files. |
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The streams block is required only if multiple streams are used on the same input. Refer to the Filebeat filestream documentation for a list of available options. Also, specifically for the |
The input in this example harvests all files in the path /var/log/*.log
, that is, all logs in the directory /var/log/
that end with .log
. All patterns supported by Go Glob are also supported here.
To fetch all files from a predefined level of subdirectories, use this pattern:
/var/log/*/*.log
. This fetches all .log
files from the subfolders of /var/log
. It does not fetch log files from the /var/log
folder itself.
Currently it is not possible to recursively fetch all files in all subdirectories of a directory.