Ansible role: beats

Install and configure Elastic (ELK) Stack beats.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

These variables are defined in defaults/main.yml:

elk_version: 6

Non defaulted variables that can be set:

elk_beats:
  filebeat:
    configuration: <yaml dict, YAML configuration for filebeat>
    service:
      enabled: true
      state: started

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Information about local filebeat TCP output port, destination logstash host and port are necessary.

- hosts: clients
  roles:
   - role: beats
     vars:
       elk_version: 6
       elk_beats:
         filebeat:
           configuration:
             filebeat:
               inputs:
                 - host: localhost:11999
                   type: tcp
               output:
                 logstash:
                   hosts: logstash:5959

License

MIT

Author Information

Tibor Csóka