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Don't stop Filebeat when modules + logstash are used together (elasti…
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…c#3929)

To simplify the migration from Ingest Node to Logstash, we replace the
hard error ("Filebeat modules require an Elasticsearch output defined") with
a warning.
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tsg authored and monicasarbu committed Apr 10, 2017
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion filebeat/beater/filebeat.go
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Expand Up @@ -75,7 +75,11 @@ func New(b *beat.Beat, rawConfig *common.Config) (beat.Beater, error) {
func (fb *Filebeat) modulesSetup(b *beat.Beat) error {
esConfig := b.Config.Output["elasticsearch"]
if esConfig == nil || !esConfig.Enabled() {
return fmt.Errorf("Filebeat modules configured but the Elasticsearch output is not configured/enabled")
logp.Warn("Filebeat is unable to load the Ingest Node pipelines for the configured" +
" modules because the Elasticsearch output is not configured/enabled. If you have" +
" already loaded the Ingest Node pipelines or are using Logstash pipelines, you" +
" can ignore this warning.")
return nil
}
esClient, err := elasticsearch.NewConnectedClient(esConfig)
if err != nil {
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