Filebeat is part of the Elastic Stack, and is used to parse and ship logs to Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana. If you are like me you may have a multitude of Raspberry Pis running, and doing things where monitoring logs in something like Elastic would be cool. This guide aims to provide a walk-through on compiling filebeat on 32bit arm architectures. Elastic provides Filebeat packages for different platforms and architectures, but sadly not the armhf/armv7l architecture that Raspberry Pis use.

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