Start Auditbeat
editStart Auditbeat
editBefore starting Auditbeat:
- Follow the steps in Quick start: installation and configuration to install, configure, and set up the Auditbeat environment.
- Make sure Kibana and Elasticsearch are running.
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Make sure the user specified in
auditbeat.ymlis authorized to publish events.
To start Auditbeat, run:
sudo service auditbeat start
If you use an init.d script to start Auditbeat, you can’t specify command
line flags (see Command reference). To specify flags, start Auditbeat in
the foreground.
Also see Auditbeat and systemd.
sudo service auditbeat start
If you use an init.d script to start Auditbeat, you can’t specify command
line flags (see Command reference). To specify flags, start Auditbeat in
the foreground.
Also see Auditbeat and systemd.
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You’ll be running Auditbeat as root, so you need to change ownership
of the configuration file, or run Auditbeat with |
To have launchd start elastic/tap/auditbeat and then restart it at login,
run:
brew services start elastic/tap/auditbeat-full
To run Auditbeat in the foreground instead of running it as a background service, run:
auditbeat -e
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You’ll be running Auditbeat as root, so you need to change ownership
of the configuration file, or run Auditbeat with |
PS C:\Program Files\auditbeat> Start-Service auditbeat
By default, Windows log files are stored in C:\ProgramData\auditbeat\Logs.