Filebeat is bundled with the RPM

[ElvenSpellmaker]

Problem description

Bundling filebeat with the rpm causes problems if filebeat is already installed on the system, there's no way without rebundling the RPM to install sidecar on our machines which have filebeat already installed because they install to the same locations:

Execution of '/usr/bin/rpm -i /tmp/collector-sidecar.rpm' returned 1: file /usr/bin/filebeat from install of collector-sidecar-0.1.4-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filebeat-1.3.1-1.x86_64

[razvanphp]

The same with Debian, this should be a package dependancy, not included in the deb.

[michaeljoy]

I concur, this is a pretty annoying issue to have to deal with in larger environments. Filebeat should be a package dependency, not included directly

[michaeljoy]

An alternative would be to install filebeat in /usr/local/bin/filebeat or another location like in /opt/collector-sidecar/bin and specify in the collector config for binary location. This would allow side by side installs of both without forcing the use of older filebeat versions as well.

[mariussturm]

The bundled filebeat binary will be installed in /usr/lib/graylog-sidecar from 3.0 on, see f15144a

[ElvenSpellmaker]

@emarana FYI =)

[tjyang]

Hi @mariussturm
Is there a reason why sidecar can't use filebeat come with system rpm/deb package ?
Can newer 3.0 sidecar default to use system filebeat, if no filebeat installed then use sidecar bundle one ?

[mariussturm]

@tjyang the reason for the bundling was to make it as simple as possible to get started with the Sidecar as well as the fact that the Sidecar was rendering the configuration. So we could never know if the installed version fits the configuration the Sidecar is generating. As people are more used to the Sidecar we can default to the official packages. With 3.0 the rendering of the configuration file changes so it's easier to use the official packages.

[tjyang]

@mariussturm Thanks for the reply.

Is it possible to release the collector-sidecar-0.1.8 that have bundled filebeat not using /usr/bin path ?

[sreerajkksd]

Is it possible to release the collector-sidecar-0.1.8 that have bundled filebeat not using /usr/bin path ?

Can someone respond back to this?

[mariussturm]

@sreerajkksd since 1.0.0 is out there are no plans to have another 0.1.8/9 release.

[sreerajkksd]

@mariussturm Is there way, I can get a SRPM for this version ?

[mariussturm]

@sreerajkksd sorry we don't provide SRPMs currently but you can simply checkout the source from the repository if that helps?