Ansible Role: Filebeat

Install Filebeat on CentOS servers.

Requirements

Written in Ansible 1.9.*

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

supervisord_config_dir

Directory where supervisord reads configuration files.

Default is /etc/supervisor.d.

filebeat_supervisor_enabled

Install filebeat in supervisor or not.

Default is true.

filebeat_version

Filebeat version.

Default is 7.12.0.

filebeat_rpm_url

URL where to download filebeat.

Default is https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.12.0-x86_64.rpm.

filebeat_registry_dir

Directory for registry data.

Default is /var/lib/filebeat.

filebeat_config_dir

Directory for filebeat configuration file.

Default is /etc/filebeat.

filebeat_log_dir

Directory for filebeat log files.

Default is /var/log/filebeat.

filebeat_group

Group for filebeat user.

Default is filebeat.

filebeat_user

Filebeat user.

Default is filebeat.

filebeat_config

Filebeat configuration. Contents are copied as YAML directly to configuration file.

Dependencies

• juwai.supervisor, when filebeat_supervisor_enabled

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - juwai.filebeat

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2016 by Juwai Limited.