jpnewman.elk-filebeat

This Ansible role installs elastic Filebeat

Requirements

Ansible 2.x

Role Variables

Variable	Description	Default
`libpcap_package`		'libpcap0.8'
`filebeat_version`		5.3.0
`filebeat_version_check`		5.3.0
`filebeat_platform`		amd64
`filebeat_apt_package_name`		`"filebeat-{{ filebeat_version }}-{{ filebeat_platform }}.deb"`
`filebeat_download_url`		`"https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/{{ filebeat_apt_package_name }}"`
`filebeat_elasticsearch_output`		false
`filebeat_elasticsearch_host`		'localhost:9200'
`filebeat_logstash_output`		true
`filebeat_logstash_host`		'localhost:5044'
`filebeat_logstash_proxy`
`filebeat_logstash_proxy_use_local_resolver`
`ssl_cert_local_directory`		files/certs
`ssl_cert_directory`		/etc/pki/tls/certs
`ssl_cert`		logstash-forwarder.crt
`certificate_authorities`		'["/etc/pki/tls/certs/logstash-forwarder.crt"]'
`apt_cache_valid_time`		600
`geoip_database_extracted_filename`		GeoLite2-City.mmdb
`geoip_database_url_filename`		`"{{ geoip_database_extracted_filename }}.gz"`
`geoip_database_url`		`"http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/{{ geoip_database_url_filename }}"`
`geoip_database_paths`		`/usr/share/GeoIP/{{ geoip_database_extracted_filename }}` `/usr/local/var/GeoIP/{{ geoip_database_extracted_filename }}`
`prospectors`	Contains a list of 'prospector' classes

'prospector' class variables	Description
id	Id of prospector
paths	Contains a list of 'path' classes
type	prospector type

'path' class variables	Description
log_paths	Contains a list of log file paths

e.g.

prospectors:
  - id: syslog
    paths:
    - log_paths:
        - /var/log/syslog
        - /var/log/auth.log
      document_type: syslog
    type: syslog

  - id: varlog
    paths:
    - log_paths:
        - /var/log/*.log
      exclude_files:
        - "^syslog$"
        - "^auth.log$"
        - "^filebeat.log.*$"
        - "^topbeat.log.*$"
      document_type: log

Dependencies

none

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: jpnewman.elk-filebeat, tags: ["filebeat"] }

Testing

For more information on testing the template review readme ./tests/templates/README.md

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

John Paul Newman

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ELK Filebeat

role elk filebeat monitoring

Install

ansible-galaxy install jpnewman.elk-filebeat

GitHub repository

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License

mit

Downloads

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Owner

John Paul Newman

Software Engineer with DevOps working on both Windows and *nix.