The installation of the Beats provided by Elasticsearch can be done through the Elastic repository that was previously used to install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
First, let's install Filebeat on one of the Elasticsearch nodes:
sudo yum install -y filebeat
Once installed, confirm that it has completed by running the following code:
filebeat version
The output should be similar to the following command block:
[root@elastic1 ~]# filebeat version
filebeat version 6.5.4 (amd64), libbeat 6.5.4 [bd8922f1c7e93d12b07e0b3f7d349e17107f7826 built 2018-12-17 20:22:29 +0000 UTC]
To install metricbeat, the process is the same as it lives in the same repository:
sudo yum install metricbeat
To install Beats on other clients, simply add the Elastic repository as we previously explained and install it through yum. Beats are also...