metricbeat Cookbook

This is a Chef cookbook to manage metricbeat.

For Production environment, always prefer the most recent release.

Most Recent Release

cookbook 'metricbeat', '~> 0.2.0'

From Git

cookbook 'metricbeat', github: 'vkhatri/chef-metricbeat'

Repository

https://github.com/vkhatri/chef-metricbeat

Supported OS

This cookbook was tested on Amazon & Ubuntu Linux and expected to work on other RHEL platforms and Windows.

Recipes

• metricbeat::default - default recipe (use it for run_list)

• metricbeat::install - install metricbeat for rhel, debian, ubuntu based OS

• metricbeat::config - configure metricbeat

• metricbeat::install_windows - configure metricbeat for windows based OS

Core Attributes

• default['metricbeat']['version'] (default: 5.1.1): metricbeat version

• default['metricbeat']['release'] (default: 1): metricbeat release for yum package

• default['metricbeat']['packages'] (default: []): package dependencies

• default['metricbeat']['conf_dir'] (default: /etc/metricbeat or C:/opt/metricbeat/metricbeat-1.3.1-windows/): metricbeat yaml configuration file directory

• default['metricbeat']['conf_file'] (default: /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml or C:/opt/metricbeat/metricbeat-1.3.1-windows/metricbeat.yml): metricbeat configuration file

• default['metricbeat']['notify_restart'] (default: true): whether to restart metricbeat service on configuration file change

• default['metricbeat']['disable_service'] (default: false): whether to stop and disable metricbeat service, useful for maintenance mode

Configuration File metricbeat.yml Attributes

• default['metricbeat']['config']['input']['period'] (default: 10): metricbeat statistics collection interval

• default['metricbeat']['config']['input']['period'] (default: 10): metricbeat procs to collect statistics

• default['metricbeat']['config']['output'] (default: {}): metricbeat output configuration, e.g. elasticsearch, logstash, file etc.

For more attribute info, visit below link:

https://github.com/elastic/metricbeat/blob/master/etc/metricbeat.yml

metricbeat YUM/APT Repository Attributes

• default['metricbeat']['yum']['description'] (default: ``): beats yum reporitory attribute

• default['metricbeat']['yum']['gpgcheck'] (default: true): beats yum reporitory attribute

• default['metricbeat']['yum']['enabled'] (default: true): beats yum reporitory attribute

• default['metricbeat']['yum']['baseurl'] (default: https://packages.elastic.co/beats/yum/el/$basearch): beatsyum reporitory attribute

• default['metricbeat']['yum']['gpgkey'] (default: https://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch): beats yum reporitory attribute

• default['metricbeat']['yum']['action'] (default: :create): beats yum reporitory attribute

• default['metricbeat']['apt']['description'] (default: calculated): beats apt reporitory attribute

• default['metricbeat']['apt']['components'] (default: ['stable', 'main']): beats apt reporitory attribute

• default['metricbeat']['apt']['uri'] (default: https://packages.elastic.co/beats/apt): beats apt reporitory attribute

• default['metricbeat']['apt']['key'] (default: http://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch): beats apt reporitory attribute

• default['metricbeat']['apt']['action'] (default: :add): filebeat apt reporitory attribute

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write your change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests (rake & rake knife), ensuring they all pass
6. Write new resource/attribute description to README.md
7. Write description about changes to PR
8. Submit a Pull Request using Github

Copyright & License

Authors:: Virender Khatri and Contributors

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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