I have logstash configuration and running well when I running this on terminal
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/receiver.conf --path.settings /etc/logstash
The problem is, I want to logstash running on background as a service. But its not work when I tried to running with
systemctl start logstash
This is configuration on my /etc/logstash/logstash.yml
path.data: /var/lib/test
path.config: /etc/logstash/conf.d/receiver.conf
path.logs: /var/log/logstash
This is configuration on my /etc/logstash/pipeline.yml
- pipeline.id: main
path.config: "/etc/logstash/conf.d/*.conf"
I'm using Linux 10 to running this logstash. Is there any changes I have to do with the services or I missing something?
Related
Team,
I installed Logstash 7.1.0 on Ubuntu 18.04. I am not entirely sure on how the pipelines work when Logstash is installed as a service. I can run the pipeline in the foreground, however, that's not good enough for Production.
I created a basic pipeline that takes data from a file and loads it to Elasticsearch. I can execute this pipeline easily using
/usr/share/logstash/> bin/logstash -f myfile.conf
All this while my logstash service is shutdown in the background so I can manually run the above command. The pipeline works fine and now I want to take this to Production.
I added the pipeline to /etc/logstash/conf.d/myfile.conf and restarted my logstash service. However, I do not see anything happening. Shouldn't logstash service on startup look at the files in the /etc/logstash/conf.d/ directory and execute all pipelines there? Is my understanding correct?
Thanks
Nick
You should update the /usr/share/logstash/config/pipelines.yml file to include your pipeline file, for example:
# This file is where you define your pipelines. You can define multiple.
# For more information on multiple pipelines, see the documentation:
# https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/multiple-pipelines.html
- pipeline.id: syslog
path.config: "/usr/share/logstash/pipelines/syslog.conf"
- pipeline.id: nginx-access
path.config: "/usr/share/logstash/pipelines/nginx-access.conf"
So it will run the pipelines once service start running.
See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/multiple-pipelines.html
so if I understand correctly to load logstash with some input config I need to run
bin/logstash -f logstash-simple.conf
how I automate this process so if my server will restart it will auto load some configs?
the docs not talking about this at all
edit: I am not 100% sure but it looks like the configs files shout be on /etc/logstash/conf.d/
use this command for systems that use upstart
sudo systemctl start logstash.service
The required configuration file for upstart systems is
/etc/init/logstash.conf
I am running ELK in a docker container at localhost, I am trying to start filebeat (not through docker container) but I am receiving the error below.
/etc/init.d/filebeat: command not found
Has anyone had similar issues or any idea how to resolve this?
Also they have mentioned:
If you use an init.d script to start Filebeat on deb or rpm, you can’t specify command line flags (see Command Line Options). To specify flags, start Filebeat in the foreground.
But don't understood. I have checked a lot but nothing helped. I am running this in ubuntu 16.10
Sounds like you want to start filebeat on the host but you don't have it installed
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-installation.html
Since you are using a Linux distribution with systemd, have you tried starting filebeat as a systemd service? Check the status:
systemctl status -l filebeat
If that returns info about the service, then filebeat is set up to be a systemd service, not an init.d spawn. Enable it to have it persist after reboot with:
sudo systemctl enable filebeat
And start it with:
sudo systemctl start filebeat
I ran service logstash configtest but error given was:
logstash: unrecognized service
I was able to run logstash service individually but not with "configtest". In etc/logstash/conf.d/ I created logstash.conf file where consist of code as present below:-
Additional info:-
service logstash status
● logstash.service - logstash
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/logstash.service; disabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-12-26 12:40:58 PST; 6s ago
Main PID: 3512 (java)
CGroup: /system.slice/logstash.service
└─3512 /usr/bin/java -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX...
Dec 26 12:40:58 Mr systemd[1]: Started logstash.
Service while running with configtest:-
root#Mr:/# service logstash configtest
logstash: unrecognized service
I am running this on debian8 machine, hope i will get a good solution from you guys.
# This input block will listen on port 10514 for logs to come in.
# host should be an IP on the Logstash server.
# codec => "json" indicates that we expect the lines we're receiving to be in JSON format
# type => "rsyslog" is an optional identifier to help identify messaging streams in the pipeline.
input {
udp {
host => "logstash_private_ip"
port => 10514
codec => "json"
type => "rsyslog"
}
}
# This is an empty filter block. You can later add other filters here to further process
# your log lines
filter { }
# This output block will send all events of type "rsyslog" to Elasticsearch at the configured
# host and port into daily indices of the pattern, "rsyslog-YYYY.MM.DD"
output {
if [type] == "rsyslog" {
elasticsearch {
hosts => [ "elasticsearch_private_ip:9200" ]
}
}
}
for old logstash
/opt/logstash/bin/logstash --configtest -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/
Later, it became installed in /usr/share/logstash so try either
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash --configtest -f <the config file/folder>
Or if running version 5.1+ use --config.test_and_exit
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash --config.test_and_exit -f <the config file/folder>
I had the same problem and it helped me a lot:
If you are running Logstash version 5, the following command to test the configuration will give you an error:
sudo /opt/logstash/bin/logstash --configtest -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/
The right command to test it is:
sudo -u logstash /usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash --path.settings /etc/logstash -t
I'm running ELK + filebeat since an Ubuntu Server 16.04 and my result was:
Sending Logstash's logs to /var/log/logstash which is now configured via log4j2.properties
Configuration OK
Sources:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/running-logstash.html; https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/6161
for logstash 5.1 its
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash --config.test_and_exit -f logstash.yml
Using the official logstash Docker image to validate a local file:
docker run -it -v /etc/logstash:/etc/logstash logstash /usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash -t -f /etc/logstash/logstash.conf
This assumes your config file is locally in /etc/logstash, then mounts that folder into the container, under the same path. Then the binary can find the config file inside the container.
There might be a better way to run that command, this worked for me.
If you want to test your configs with a docker container logstash 6.x
docker run -it -v $PWD:/etc/logstash/conf.d --entrypoint "bin/logstash" logstash "--config.test_and_exit"
You should do this on CentOS version 7:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/logstash configtest /etc/logstash/conf.d/test.conf
On Centos 7, you can also use the following command:
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash --path.settings /etc/logstash/
--config.test_and_exit /etc/logstash/conf.d/logstash.conf
I Installed ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) with YUM onto our centos based system and set them as start at boot time. Then When I tried command systemctl list-unit-files, the output only contains Kibana and Elasticsearch without Logstash at all. But Logstash is indeed listed in command chkconfig --list
According to my understanding, it means that Logstash is a SysV service, whereas Kibana and Elasticsearch are systemd services. Is it so? If so why is Logstash different from Elasticsearch and Kibana as a SysV service other than systemd service?