nephelaiio.filebeat

An ansible role to install and configure filebeat

Role Variables

Please refer to the defaults file for an up to date list of input parameters.

Dependencies

• nephelaiio.elastic_repo

Please review the dependency configuration for more details

Example Playbook

- name: Deploy filebeat
  hosts: servers
  vars:
    filebeat_package_state: latest
    filebeat_conf_manage: true
    filebeat_conf:
      fields:
        environment: development
      inputs:
        - type: log
          paths:
            - /var/log/system.log
            - /var/log/wifi.log
        - type: log
          paths:
            - "/var/log/nginx/*.log"
          fields:
            application: nginx
      output:
        elasticsearch:
          enabled: true
          hosts:
            - http://localhost:9200
      setup:
        dashboards:
          enabled: true
          beat: filebeat
          always_kibana: true
        template:
          enabled: true
        kibana:
          host: http://localhost:80
  roles:
     - role: nephelaiio.filebeat

Testing

Please make sure your environment has docker installed in order to run role validation tests. Additional python dependencies are listed in the requirements file

Role is tested against the following distributions (docker images):

• Ubuntu Jammy
• Ubuntu Focal
• Debian Bookworm
• Debian Bullseye
• Rocky Linux 9

You can test the role directly from sources using command molecule test

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License