How to guides [howto-guides]

Learn how to perform common Filebeat configuration tasks.

• Override configuration settings
• Load the {{es}} index template
• Change the index name
• Load {{kib}} dashboards
• Load ingest pipelines
• Enrich events with geoIP information
• Deduplicate data
• Parse data using an ingest pipeline
• Use environment variables in the configuration
• Avoid YAML formatting problems
• Migrate log or container input configurations to filestream
• Choose file identity for filestream
• Migrating from a Deprecated Filebeat Module
• Removing ingested files with the Filestream input