Topbeat was replaced by
Metricbeat in 5.0. To learn more about Metricbeat, see the
Metricbeat documentation.
File Outputedit
The File output dumps the transactions into a file where each transaction is in a JSON format. Currently, this output is used for testing, but it can be used as input for Logstash.
output: # File as output # Options: # path: where to save the files # filename: name of the files # rotate_every_kb: maximum size of the files in path # number of files: maximum number of files in path file: path: "/tmp/topbeat" filename: topbeat rotate_every_kb: 1000 number_of_files: 7
File Output Optionsedit
You can specify the following options in the file
section:
pathedit
The path to the directory where the generated files will be saved. This option is mandatory.
filenameedit
The name of the generated files. The default is set to the Beat name. For example, the files generated by default for Topbeat would be "topbeat", "topbeat.1", "topbeat.2", and so on.
rotate_every_kbedit
The maximum size in kilobytes of each file. When this size is reached, the files are rotated. The default value is 10240 KB.