Filebeat

Filebeat is an open source file harvester, mostly used to fetch logs files and feed them into logstash. Together with the libbeat lumberjack output is a replacement for logstash-forwarder.

To learn more about Filebeat, check out https://www.elastic.co/beats/filebeat.

Quick start

Please follow the quick start guide from the docs.

Documentation

Please visit elastic.co for the documentation.

Bugs and feature requests

If you have an issue, please start by opening a topic on the forums. We'll help you troubleshoot and work with you on a solution.

If you are sure you found a bug or have a feature request, open an issue on Github.

Contributions

We love contributions from our community! Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file.