cars and such things…
graylog-sidecar, filebeat 7.x on ubuntu , beats input : 5044
What do you need the beats Input for ?
I need to find out, if there are any socket timeout exceptions , happening in my application, when I connect to any external 3rd party service.
I would like to retry by connection, to see if my connection can be safely restored back again.
Beats Input would allow you to monitor the application logs, just so you can act upon it, once there’s a failure.
there are many ways to skin the cat. you can follow the guidelines in this
link for setting up FileBeat as a binary.
Start the filebeat with the command ./filebeat which is a executable on a linux machine.
Set up log4j appenders
Graylog comes with a sidecar component and once we sync up the sidecar and filebeat configuration, we can watch the application logs in the graylog dashboard.
Happy Coding.
