<p>I am setting up pipeline to send the kubernetes pods log to elastic cluster. I have installed filebeat as deamonset (stream: stdout) in my cluster and connected output to logstash. Beats is connected with logstash without an issue, now i want logs from application namespaces not from all namespaces in cluster. can someone guide me how to filter this in beat adn also how can to see the source message from json in es?</p>
<p>This is my config:</p>
<pre class="lang-yaml prettyprint-override"><code>data:
  kubernetes.yml: |-
    - type: docker
      containers:
        path: &quot;/var/lib/docker/containers&quot;
        stream: &quot;stdout&quot;
        ids: &quot;*&quot;
        multiline.pattern: '^\s'
        multiline.match: after
      fields:
         logtype: container
      multiline:
         pattern: '^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}'
         negate: true
         match: after
      ignore_older: 1h
      processors:
        - add_kubernetes_metadata:
            in_cluster: true
        - decode_json_fields:
            fields: [&quot;log&quot;]
            overwrite_keys: true
            target: &quot;&quot;

</code></pre>
<p>Output in kibana:</p>
<pre class="lang-json prettyprint-override"><code>
{
  &quot;_index&quot;: &quot;filebeat-6.8.4-2020.03.06&quot;,
  &quot;_type&quot;: &quot;doc&quot;,
  &quot;_id&quot;: &quot;vHkzsHABJ57Tsdxxxxx&quot;,
  &quot;_version&quot;: 1,
  &quot;_score&quot;: null,
  &quot;_source&quot;: {
    &quot;log&quot;: {
      &quot;file&quot;: {
        &quot;path&quot;: &quot;/var/lib/docker/containers/aa54562be9448183d69d8d2e1953e74560309176f044aed23484ac9e3260982c/sdnksdsdlsdnfsdlfslfnsdslfnsnlnflksdnflkdsfnsdflsdfndslffndslf-json.log&quot;
      }
    },
    &quot;tags&quot;: [
      &quot;beats_input_codec_plain_applied&quot;,
      &quot;_grokparsefailure&quot;
    ],
    &quot;input&quot;: {
      &quot;type&quot;: &quot;docker&quot;
    },
    &quot;@version&quot;: &quot;1&quot;,
    &quot;prospector&quot;: {
      &quot;type&quot;: &quot;docker&quot;
    },
    &quot;beat&quot;: {
      &quot;version&quot;: &quot;6.8.4&quot;,
      &quot;name&quot;: &quot;filebeat-vtp2f&quot;,
      &quot;hostname&quot;: &quot;filebeat-vtp2f&quot;
    },
    &quot;host&quot;: {
      &quot;name&quot;: &quot;filebeat-vtp2f&quot;
    },
    &quot;offset&quot;: 5798785,
    &quot;stream&quot;: &quot;stdout&quot;,
    &quot;fields&quot;: {
      &quot;logtype&quot;: &quot;container&quot;
    },
    &quot;kubernetes&quot;: {
      &quot;node&quot;: {
        &quot;name&quot;: &quot;k8-test-22313607-0&quot;
      },
      &quot;labels&quot;: {
        &quot;version&quot;: &quot;v1&quot;,
        &quot;kubernetes&quot;: {
          &quot;io/cluster-service&quot;: &quot;true&quot;
        },
        &quot;controller-revision-hash&quot;: &quot;6b56cfcb69&quot;,
        &quot;pod-template-generation&quot;: &quot;1&quot;,
        &quot;k8s-app&quot;: &quot;fluent&quot;
      },
      &quot;container&quot;: {
        &quot;name&quot;: &quot;fluentd&quot;
      },
      &quot;pod&quot;: {
        &quot;uid&quot;: &quot;72c50b54-5ef0-11ea-83e1-26018882335d&quot;,
        &quot;name&quot;: &quot;fluent-4lft2&quot;
      },
      &quot;namespace&quot;: &quot;fluentd&quot;
    },
    &quot;source&quot;: &quot;/var/lib/docker/containers/aa54562be9448183d69d8d2e1953e74560309176f044aed23484ac9e3260982c/aa54562be9448183d69d8d2e1953e74560309176f044aed23484ac9e3260982c-json.log&quot;,
    &quot;@timestamp&quot;: &quot;2020-03-06T14:15:18.561Z&quot;
  },
  &quot;fields&quot;: {
    &quot;@timestamp&quot;: [
      &quot;2020-03-06T14:15:18.561Z&quot;
    ]
  },
  &quot;highlight&quot;: {
    &quot;prospector.type&quot;: [
      &quot;@kibana-highlighted-field@docker@/kibana-highlighted-field@&quot;
    ]
  },
  &quot;sort&quot;: [
    1583504118561
  ]
}
</code></pre>

paulpuvi
<p>how to drop some namespaces, i documented here: <a href="https://ezyforanykey.blogspot.com/2020/11/filebeat-exclude-kubernetes-namespace.html" rel="noreferrer">https://ezyforanykey.blogspot.com/2020/11/filebeat-exclude-kubernetes-namespace.html</a></p>
<p>example is below:</p>
<pre><code>- type: container
      paths:
        - /var/log/containers/*.log
      exclude_files:
        - /var/log/containers/java.*
      processors:
        - add_kubernetes_metadata:
            host: ${NODE_NAME}
            matchers:
            - logs_path:
                logs_path: &quot;/var/log/containers/&quot;
        - drop_event.when:
            or:
            - equals:
                kubernetes.namespace: &quot;kube-system&quot;
            - equals:
                kubernetes.namespace: &quot;calico-system&quot;
</code></pre>
