filebeat

Install on CentOS 7

Download and install the public signing key

sudo rpm --import https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch

Create yum repo

• /etc/yum.repos.d/elastic.repo

sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/elastic.repo

[elastic-6.x]
name=Elastic repository for 6.x packages
baseurl=https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/yum
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
autorefresh=1
type=rpm-md

• make sure version 6.2.3 does exist

sudo yum list filebeat-6.2.3

• install

sudo yum install filebeat-6.2.3 -y

• To configure the Beat to start automatically during boot

sudo chkconfig --add filebeat