AWS Beats

Experimental Filebeat output plugin. Supports AWS Kinesis Data Firehose streams.

NOTE: Filebeat and plugin should be built using the same Golang version.

Quick start

Either:

• Download binary files from https://github.com/s12v/awsbeats/releases
• Pull docker images from kubeaws/awsbeats

Firehose

• Add to filebeats.yml:

output.firehose:
  region: eu-central-1
  stream_name: test1 # Your delivery stream name

• Run filebeat with plugin ./filebeat-v6.1.3-go1.10rc1-linux-amd64 -plugin kinesis.so-0.0.3-v6.1.3-go1.10rc1-linux-amd64

Streams

• Download binary files from https://github.com/s12v/awsbeats/releases
• Add to filebeats.yml:

output.streams:
  region: eu-central-1
  stream_name: test1 # Your stream name
  partition_key: mykey # In case your beat event is {"foo":1,"mykey":"bar"}, not "mykey" but "bar" is used as the partition key

See the example filebeat.yaml for more details.

• Run filebeat with plugin ./filebeat-v6.1.3-go1.10rc1-linux-amd64 -plugin kinesis.so-0.0.3-v6.1.3-go1.10rc1-linux-amd64

AWS authentication

• Default AWS credentials chain is used (environment, credentials file, EC2 role)
• Assume role is not supported

Build it yourself

Build requires Go 1.10+ and Linux. You need to define Filebeat version (v6.1.3 in this example)

go get github.com/elastic/beats
# curl https://glide.sh/get | sh
glide install
make BEATS_VERSION=v6.1.3

In target/ you will find filebeat and plugin, for example:

filebeat-v6.1.3-go1.10rc1-linux-amd64
kinesis.so-1-snapshot-v6.1.3-go1.10rc1-linux-amd64

Running in a docker container

To build a docker image for awsbeats, run:

make dockerimage BEATS_VERSION=6.2.4 GO_VERSION=1.10.2 GOPATH=$HOME/go

The resulting docker image is tagged s12v/awsbeats:canary. It contains a custom build of filebeat and the plugin, along with all the relevant files from the official filebeat docker image.

To try running it, provide AWS credentials via e.g. envvars and run hack/dockerized-filebeat:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=...
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=...

hack/containerized-filebeat

Emit some line-delimited json log messages:

hack/emit-ndjson-logs

Running on a Kubernetes cluster

Use the helm chart:

cat << EOS > values.yaml
image:
  repository: kubeaws/awsbeats
  tag: canary
  pullPolicy: Always

plugins:
  - kinesis.so

config:
  output.file:
    enabled: false
  output.streams:
    enabled: true
    region: ap-northeast-1
    stream_name: test1
    partition_key: mykey
EOS

git clone git@github.com:mumoshu/charts.git charts
pushd charts
git checkout filebeat-plugins
popd

helm upgrade --install filebeat ./charts/stable/filebeat \
  -f values.yaml \
  --set rbac.enabled=true

Output buffering

TODO