If you opt to use Autodiscover, you will need only one YAML with multiple configs to efficiently identify changes in the cluster. While this is feasible, it is more time-consuming, complicated, and not scalable. You would also need to make sure that if you create a new cluster, that you copy the config. Without the use of Autodiscover, you would have to manually create a separate YAML config for each microservice. for one microservice you want to apply multi line settings in another, you want to apply masking for sensitive PII. Let’s assume you have a microservice environment running in Kubernetes or Docker and you would like to apply different log settings to different types of microservices, i.e. Under fields, type isn’t essential): # Filebeat #į: /usr/share/filebeat/data/registry When would you want to use Filebeat Autodiscover? If you select the wrong type, Autodiscover will not work.
#Filebeats kubernetes code#
Please find below the snippet of code from the actual YAML (Please note that type under providers and config are extremely important. The first part of the setup is to use the following YAML, so in this instance you should have RBAC configured in order for it to work properly.
#Filebeats kubernetes how to#
In the following part of the article, I will explain how to apply Autodiscover via a YAML daemonset in Kubernetes. In that cluster, I am running a WordPress website along with a MySQL DB for the website. I also used Filebeat version 7.3.1 with RBAC. In the following example, I used Minikube v1.6.1 to run a local cluster on my machine.
Name, interval, probe_timeout, grace_period NomadĪddress, region, node, scope, wait_time, allow_stale, name, secret_id Configuring Filebeat Autodiscover Node, namespace, kube_config, resource, cleanup_timeout, scope, add_resource_metadata, unique, leader_lease Jolokia Host, ssl, cleaup_timeout, dot Kubernetes Here is a chart of fields for each of those providers: Docker provider The Docker provider watches for starts and stops the K8S providers for starts, stops, and updates. There are two specific Autodiscover providers you’ll want to take special note of: 1) Docker and 2) Kubernetes.
Providers must be defined in order for Autodiscover to work. Providers are essential configurables that monitor system events and reformat them as internal autodiscover events. Autodiscover will clearly distinguish between the two. However, another microservice might require logs to be sent to a different endpoint. One microservice might require multi-line configuration for its logs with different endpoints. Announcing Logz.io’s New Data Parsing and Log Transformation Toolįor example, you might have two identical pods.