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ActiveMQ

Collect and Ship ActiveMQ application logs to Logstash and Elasticsearch

Filebeat is a lightweight shipper that enables you to send your ActiveMQ message queue logs to Logstash and Elasticsearch. Configure Filebeat using the pre-defined examples below to start sending and analysing your ActiveMQ message queue logs.

Install Integration

Please click on the Install Integration button to configure your stack for this source.

Install Filebeat

To get started you will need to install filebeat. To do this you have two main options:

To successfully install filebeat and set up the required Windows service you will need to have administrator access.

If you have chosen to download the zip file:

  • Extract the contents of the zip file into C:\Program Files.
  • Rename the extracted folder to filebeat
  • Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator).
  • From the PowerShell prompt, run the following commands to install filebeat as a Windows service:
cd 'C:\Program Files\filebeat'
.\install-service-filebeat.ps1

If script execution is disabled on your system, you need to set the execution policy for the current session to allow the script to run. For example:

PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted -File .\install-service-filebeat.ps1

For more information about Powershell execution policies see here (opens in a new tab).

If you have chosen to download the filebeat.msi file:

  • double-click on it and the relevant files will be downloaded.

At the end of the installation process you'll be given the option to open the folder where filebeat has been installed.

  • Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator).
  • From the PowerShell prompt, change directory to the location where filebeat was installed and run the following command to install filebeat as a Windows service:
.\install-service-filebeat.ps1

If script execution is disabled on your system, you need to set the execution policy for the current session to allow the script to run. For example:

PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted -File .\install-service-filebeat.ps1

For more information about Powershell execution policies see here (opens in a new tab).

Locate Configuration File

deb/rpm /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml

Add ActiveMQ Log Location

Filebeat does not currently have a module to process the ActiveMQ application logs.

Therefore we need to add the ActiveMQ application log location to the filebeat inputs.

Add the following to the end of the log input example, before the filebeat.config.modules section.

- type: log
    enabled: true
    paths:
    - /path/to/log/activemq/data/activemq.log*
    fields:
    type: activemq
    multiline.pattern: ^\=
    multiline.match: before

If you're running Filebeat 8.1+ filebeat.inputs needs to be filestream instead of logs:

filebeat.inputs:
 
- type: filestream
    enabled: true
    paths:
    - /path/to/log/activemq/data/activemq.log*
    fields:
    type: activemq
    multiline.pattern: ^\=
    multiline.match: before

Enable the input

We need to ensure that any inputs we are using are enabled

filebeat.inputs:
 
- type: log
    enabled: false

Enable the filebeat input, so it should look like the following

filebeat.inputs:
 
- type: log
    enabled: true

Configure Output

We will be shipping to Logstash so that we have the option to run filters before the data is indexed.

Comment out the elasticsearch output block.

## Comment out elasticsearch output
#output.elasticsearch:
#  hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
⚠️

No input available! Your stack is missing the required input for this data source.

Talk to support to add the input

Validate Configuration

cd <EXTRACTED_ARCHIVE>
.\@beatname.exe -e -c @beatname.yml

If the yml file is invalid, will print an error loading config file error message with details on how to correct the problem. If you have issues starting see "How To Diagnose No Data In Stack" below to troubleshoot.

Start Filebeat

To start Filebeat, run in Powershell:

Start-Service filebeat

Launch Logit.io to view your logs

Data should now have been sent to your Stack.

View My Data

If you don't see take a look at How to diagnose no data in Stack below for how to diagnose common issues.

How to diagnose no data in Stack

If you don't see data appearing in your Stack after following the steps, visit the Help Centre guide for steps to diagnose no data appearing in your Stack or Chat to support now.

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