You can copy same file in filebeat.yml  and run  after making below change as per your environment directory structure and follow steps mentioned for Filebeat Download,Installation and Start/Run

• Change on Prospectors section for your logs file directory and file name
• Configure Multiline pattern as per your logs format as of now set as generic hopefully will work with all pattern
• Change on Kafka output section for Host ,Port and topic name as required
• Change on logging directory as per you machine directory.

Sample filebeat.yml file

#=============Filebeat prospectors ===============

filebeat.prospectors:

# Here we can define multiple prospectors and shipping method and rules  as per
#requirement and if need to read logs from multiple file from same patter directory #location can use regular pattern also.

#Filebeat support only two types of input_type log and stdin

# #############input type logs configuration#####################

- input_type: log

# Paths of the files from where logs will read and use regular expression if need to read #from multiple files
paths:
- /opt/app/app1/logs/app1-debug*.log*
# make this fields_under_root as true if you want filebeat json out for read files in root.
fields_under_root: true

### Multiline configuration for handeling stacktrace, Object, XML etc if that is the case #and multiline is enabled with below configuration will shipped output for these case in #multiline

# The regexp Pattern that has to be matched. The example pattern matches all lines #starting with [DEBUG,ALERT,TRACE,WARNING log level that can be customize #according to your logs line format
multiline.pattern: '^\[([Aa]lert|ALERT|[Tt]race|TRACE|[Dd]ebug|DEBUG|[Nn]otice|NOTICE|[Ii]nfo|INFO|[Ww]arn?(?:ing)?|WARN?(?:ING)?|[Ee]rr?(?:or)?|ERR?(?:OR)?|[Cc]rit?(?:ical)?|CRIT?(?:ICAL)?|[Ff]atal|FATAL|[Ss]evere|SEVERE|EMERG(?:ENCY)?|[Ee]merg(?:ency)?)'

# Default is false.Defines if the pattern match  should be negated or not.
multiline.negate: true

# multiline.match define if pattern not match with above pattern where these line need #to append.Possible values  are "after" or "before".

multiline.match: after

# if you will set this max line after these number of multiline all will ignore
#multiline.max_lines: 50

#==========Kafka output Configuration ============================
output.kafka:
# Below enable flag is for enable or disable output module will discuss more on filebeat #module section
#enabled: true

# Here mentioned all your Kafka broker host and port to fetch cluster metadata which #contains published events for kafka brokers.

hosts: ["kafkahost:port"]

# We can define topic for Kafka broker where events will published.
topic: QC-LOGS

# Default no key setting. But we can use formatted key settings.
#key: ''

#Default partition strategy is 'hash' using key values set. If not set key value will #randomly distribute publish events.

#partition.hash:

# Default value  is false. If reach_only enabled event will publish only reachable kafka #brokers.
#reachable_only: false

# Configure alternative event field names used to compute the hash value.
# If empty `output.kafka.key` setting will be used.
# Default value is empty list.
#hash: []

# If authentication set on Kafka broker end below fileds are required.
#username: ''
#password: ''

#Kafka Broker version to configure so that filebeat can check compatibility with that.
#version: 0.8.2

#Meta data information is required for broker event publishing so that filbeat can take  #decision based on status of brokers.

#metadata:

#Defaults value for max 3 retries selection of available brokers.
#retry.max: 3

# Default value is 250ms. Will wait for specified time before make next retries.
#retry.backoff: 250ms

# Will update meta data information  in every 10 minutes.
#refresh_frequency: 10m

# It shows no of worker will run for each configure kafka broker.
#worker: 1

#Default value is 3. If set less than 0 filebeat will retry continuously as logs as events not #publish.
#max_retries: 3

# The Default value is 2048.It shows max number of batch events will publish to Kafka in #one request.
#bulk_max_size: 2048

#The default value is 30 second. It will timeout if not hear any response from Kafka #broker with in specified time.
#timeout: 30s
# Default is value is 10 seconds. During this max duration broker will wait for #number #of required acknowledgement.
#broker_timeout: 10s

# Default value is 256 for buffered message for Kafka broker.
#channel_buffer_size: 256

# Default value is 0 seconds  as keep alive is disabled and if this value set will keep alive #active network connection for that time.
#keep_alive: 0

# Default value for compression is gzip. We can also set other compression codec like #snappy, gzip or none.
compression: gzip

#Default value is 1000000 bytes . If Json value is more than configured max message #bytes event will dropped.
max_message_bytes: 1000000

#Default Value is 1 for ACK for reliability. Possible values can be :

#0=no response , Message can be lost on some error happens

#1=wait for local commit

#-1=wait for all replicas to commit.
#required_acks: 1

# Waiting Interval between new events and previous events for read logs.
#flush_interval: 1s

# The configurable ClientID used for logging, debugging, and auditing
# purposes. The default is "beats".

#Default value is beat. We can set values for this field that will help for analysis and #auditing purpose.
#client_id: beats

# Configure SSL setting id required for Kafk broker
#ssl.enabled: true

# Optional SSL configuration options. SSL is off by default.
# List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications

#SSK configuration is Optional and OFF by default . It required for server verification if #HTTPS root certificate .
#ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]

#Default value is full. SSL configuration verfication mode is required if SSL is configured #We can use value as 'none' for testing purpose but in this mode it can accept any #certificate.
#ssl.verification_mode: full

# List of supported/valid TLS versions. By default all TLS versions 1.0 up to
# 1.2 are enabled.

#By Default  it support all TLS versions after 1.0 to 1.2. We can also mentioned version in #below array
#ssl.supported_protocols: [TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2]

# Define path for certificate for SSL
#ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"

# Define path for Client Certificate Key
#ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"

# If data is configured and shipped encrypted form. Need to add passphrase for #decrypting the Certificate Key otherwise optional
#ssl.key_passphrase: ''

# Configure encryption cipher suites to be used for SSL connections
#ssl.cipher_suites: []

# Configure encryption curve types for ECDHE based cipher suites
#ssl.curve_types: []
#====================Logging ==============================

# Default log level is info if set above or below will record top this hierarchy #automatically. Available log levels are: critical, error, warning, info, debug

logging.level: debug
# Possible values for selectors are "beat", "publish" and  "service" if you want to enable #for all select value as "*". This selector decide on command line when  start filebeat.
logging.selectors: ["*"]

# The default value is false.If make it true will send out put to syslog.
logging.to_syslog: false
# The default is true. all non-zero metrics  reading are output on shutdown.
logging.metrics.enabled: true

# Period of matrics for log reading counts from log files and it will send complete report #when shutdown filebeat
logging.metrics.period: 30s
# Set this flag as true to enable logging in files if not set that will disable.
logging.to_files: true
logging.files:
# Path of directory where logs file will write if not set default directory will home #directory.
path: /tmp

# Name of files where logs will write
name: filebeat-app.log
# Log File will rotate if reach max size and will create new file. Default value is 10MB
rotateeverybytes: 10485760 # = 10MB

# This will keep recent maximum log files in directory for rotation and remove oldest #files.
keepfiles: 7
# Will enable logging for that level only. Available log levels are: critical, error, warning, #info, debug
level: debug

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