instance

Documentation

Overview

Package instance provides the functions required to manage the life-cycle of a Beat. It provides the standard mechanism for launching a Beat. It manages configuration, logging, and publisher initialization and registers a signal handler to gracefully stop the process.

Each Beat implementation must implement the `Beater` interface and a `Creator` to create and initialize the Beater instance. See the `Beater` interface and `Creator` documentation for more details.

To use this package, create a simple main that invokes the Run() function.

func main() {
	if err := beat.Run("mybeat", myVersion, beater.New); err != nil {
		os.Exit(1)
	}
}

In the example above, the beater package contains the implementation of the Beater interface and the New method returns a new instance of Beater. The Beater implementation is placed into its own package so that it can be reused or combined with other Beats.

Recommendations

• Use the logp package for logging rather than writing to stdout or stderr.
• Do not call os.Exit in any of your code. Return an error instead. Or if your code needs to exit without an error, return beat.GracefulExit.

Index

• func Run(name, version string, bt beat.Creator) error
• type Beat
  • func NewBeat(name, v string) (*Beat, error)
  • func (b *Beat) BeatConfig() (*common.Config, error)
  • func (b *Beat) Init() error
  • func (b *Beat) Setup(bt beat.Creator, template, dashboards, machineLearning bool) error
  • func (b *Beat) TestConfig(bt beat.Creator) error
• type TemplateConfig

Functions

func Run

func Run(name, version string, bt beat.Creator) error

Run initializes and runs a Beater implementation. name is the name of the Beat (e.g. packetbeat or metricbeat). version is version number of the Beater implementation. bt is the `Creator` callback for creating a new beater instance. XXX Move this as a *Beat method?

Types

type Beat

type Beat struct {
	beat.Beat

	Config    beatConfig
	RawConfig *common.Config // Raw config that can be unpacked to get Beat specific config data.
}

Beat provides the runnable and configurable instance of a beat.

func NewBeat

func NewBeat(name, v string) (*Beat, error)

NewBeat creates a new beat instance

func (*Beat) BeatConfig

func (b *Beat) BeatConfig() (*common.Config, error)

BeatConfig returns config section for this beat

func (*Beat) Init

func (b *Beat) Init() error

init does initialization of things common to all actions (read confs, flags)

func (*Beat) Setup

func (b *Beat) Setup(bt beat.Creator, template, dashboards, machineLearning bool) error

Setup registers ES index template and kibana dashboards

func (*Beat) TestConfig

func (b *Beat) TestConfig(bt beat.Creator) error

TestConfig check all settings are ok and the beat can be run

type TemplateConfig

type TemplateConfig struct {
	Enabled   bool              `config:"enabled"`
	Name      string            `config:"name"`
	Fields    string            `config:"fields"`
	Overwrite bool              `config:"overwrite"`
	Settings  map[string]string `config:"settings"`
}