# Installer filebeat avec Homebrew, chocolatey, Nix Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de filebeat pour les workflows d'agents IA. ## installation ```sh sudo av install brew:filebeat ``` Commandes d'installation supplémentaires: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install filebeat ``` Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#filebeat ``` Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: filebeat from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix ### Windows - Chocolatey (92%): ```sh choco install filebeat ``` Preuve: Chocolatey community package catalog: filebeat from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','everythingpowertoys' ## Faits du paquet - **Clé du paquet:** brew:filebeat - **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew - **Version:** 9.4.4 - **Résumé source:** File harvester to ship log files to Elasticsearch or Logstash - **Page d'accueil:** - **Dépôt:** - **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-23T07:28:30Z - **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## exécutables - filebeat (alias) ## Comportement d'installation - Bouteille: non disponible ## Version et fraîcheur - page générée: 2026-08-03 - version du gestionnaire: 9.4.4 ## Historique du projet et usages Filebeat is Elastic's lightweight log shipper in the Beats family: a small agent installed near application and system logs, harvesting files and forwarding events to Elasticsearch or Logstash. In package-manager terms, Filebeat matters because it turned log shipping into a standard single-purpose daemon: install the formula or package, edit filebeat.yml, enable modules or inputs, and wire it to an Elastic Stack endpoint. ### Historique du projet The Beats repository began in 2014 as the home of lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch and Logstash. Early public tags were Packetbeat-focused, and the shared libbeat framework became the substrate for later Beats, including Filebeat. Filebeat emerged as the file-log member of that family. Elastic's documentation describes its runtime model as inputs discovering log data, harvesters reading individual files, libbeat aggregating events, and configured outputs forwarding them to Elasticsearch or Logstash. By the 5.x era, Filebeat was established enough for Elastic to document modules, which bundle input configuration, ingest pipelines, and dashboards for common log sources. Modern Elastic documentation still supports Filebeat modules, while recommending newer Elastic Agent integrations for streamlined data collection. ### Historique d'adoption Filebeat adoption tracks Elastic Stack adoption: it became the default lightweight answer for users who wanted to avoid running a heavier Logstash instance on every host while still centralizing log files. Its packaging footprint across Homebrew, Chocolatey, and Nix, together with Elastic's own packages and documentation, reflects cross-platform use by developers, operators, and observability teams. Elastic's current docs place Filebeat inside the broader Beats and Elastic Agent story: existing Filebeat deployments remain supported, but greenfield Elastic collection is increasingly guided toward Fleet-managed integrations. ### Modes d'utilisation Typical usage starts with filebeat.yml, where users configure inputs or modules, output credentials, and path settings. Filebeat then runs as a foreground command during testing or as a service on servers. Operators care about path.config, path.data, and the Filebeat keystore because those paths determine where configuration, registry state, logs, and stored secrets live. The keystore lets credentials be referenced from configuration without writing the raw secret in filebeat.yml. For package users, the everyday workflow is small but operationally important: install Filebeat, point it at logs, verify output connectivity, and let it continuously tail files with registry state so restarts do not resend the whole world. ### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent Filebeat is a classic example of a package-manager-friendly observability agent: one executable, one YAML config, a daemon/service mode, and enough defaults for automated installation. It also illustrates how upstream package structure matters. The formula installs a single Beat, but the source lives in Elastic's monorepo alongside Metricbeat, Heartbeat, Auditbeat, Winlogbeat, and libbeat. ### Chronologie - 2014: Elastic Beats repository created and early Packetbeat releases published. - 2015: Beats 1.0 release candidates published from the shared repository. - 2016: Beats 5.0.0 release line shipped as Elastic Stack 5-era Beats matured. - 2017: Filebeat modules documented for Elasticsearch 5.2 or later. - 2022: Beats 8.0.0 release line published. - 2025: Beats 9.0.0 release line published. ### Related projects - Filebeat is part of Elastic Beats and shares libbeat infrastructure with Metricbeat, Heartbeat, Auditbeat, Packetbeat, and Winlogbeat. - It commonly appears with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Elastic Agent, and Fleet integrations. ### Sources - - - - - - - - - ## Notes de sécurité formula declares a Homebrew service. - **Risque Geiger:** orange / moyen - formula declares a Homebrew service ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Linux: /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml - Unix: {path.config}/filebeat.yml ## Credential files - Unix: {path.config}/filebeat.keystore ## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets - Nix - filebeat: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: filebeat from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix - Chocolatey - filebeat: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: filebeat from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','everythingpowertoys' ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/filebeat.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/filebeat.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph