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Learning Kibana 5.0

You're reading from   Learning Kibana 5.0 Exploit the visualization capabilities of Kibana and build powerful interactive dashboards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463005
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bahaaldine Azarmi Bahaaldine Azarmi
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Getting started with Metricbeat


In this part we'll go through the installation of Metricbeat, and start shipping data to Elasticsearch.

Metricbeat installation

Installing Metricbeat is as easy as decompressing a TAR file. First, download it at https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat:

In my case, I'm downloading 5.0.0-alpha5 (the current version at the time of writing) and the Mac archive, and uncompressing the TAR file:

tar -zxvf metricbeat-5.0.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

You should get the following directory structure:

MacBook-Pro-de-Bahaaldine:metricbeat-5.0.0 bahaaldine$ pwd
/elastic/metricbeat-5.0.0
MacBook-Pro-de-Bahaaldine:metricbeat-5.0.0 bahaaldine$ ls
total 23528
scripts
metricbeat.yml
metricbeat.template.json
metricbeat.template-es2x.json
metricbeat.full.yml
metricbeat

At this point, Metricbeat is installed and needs to be configured to fit your environment settings.

Configuring and running Metricbeat

Metricbeat's configuration is stored in the Metricbeat.yml file. It's composed...

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