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Set up Filebeat

Set up Filebeat - Elastic Stack Tutorial

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Set up Filebeat

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- [Instructor] So our little simulated web server is humming along and generating traffic and logs. To see what's going on, let's connect to the web server, sandbox_ssh, and then I'm going to clear my screen. One quick note before we go too far. I've noticed that Vagrant sometimes gets a little confused when a laptop running it moves between networks, say, if it goes into sleep mode. So if you find that you're having issues with LXC or Vagrant, just exit out of the LXC node, exit out of the Vagrant box, and just run vagrant reload. Now, I'm not going to run it right now because my network's working, but that'll actually just go in and reboot the Vagrant box. So I'll ssh back down. And I'll clear the screen, and we become root, and let's connect to that web node again. So since we've got our tests running in the background, let's just do a little following tail of that log. It should be var/log/nginx/access.log. Now, this runs every minute, and it should run a whole lot of connections,…

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