How do you configure multiple collection tasks in Filebeat?
To set up multiple collection tasks, you need to follow these steps:
- Open the Filebeat configuration file filebeat.yml.
- In the filebeat.inputs section, configure the input settings for each data collection task. For example, if you want to configure two log file collection tasks, you can add the following settings:
- Filebeat inputs include two log files, file1.log and file2.log, located at specified paths.
- This will set up two data collection tasks, each of which will monitor a log file.
- Configure additional options for each collection task, such as log parsers, field mappings, etc. You can add these options in each task configuration block under filebeat.inputs.
- Save and close the configuration file.
- Start or restart the Filebeat service.
In this way, Filebeat will run multiple collection tasks simultaneously, with each task independently monitoring and collecting specified log files.