Filebeat also needs to know the location of ES for Stack-Monitoring

Author: Chris Wiechmann

.env

@@ -4,18 +4,18 @@ APIGATEWAY_LOGS_FOLDER=/home/localuser/Axway-x.y.z/apigateway/logs/opentraffic
 APIGATEWAY_TRACES_FOLDER=/home/localuser/Axway-x.y.z/apigateway/groups/group-2/instance-1/trace
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# This variable is used by the API-Builder to locate the Elasticsearch instance
+# This variable is used by API-Builder to locate the Elasticsearch instance
 # When using the default docker-compose.yaml the following default parameter will work.
-# But, when running the ElasticSearch on a difference host (e.g. existing Elastic-Search cluster)
-# this environment variable is used by the API-Builder to locate the ElasticSearch cluster.
+# When running the ElasticSearch on a difference host (e.g. existing Elastic-Search cluster)
+# this environment variable is used by API-Builder to locate the ElasticSearch cluster.
 ELASTIC_NODE=http://elasticsearch1:9200
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # This variable is used by Logstash to communicate with the Lookup-API, which is used to 
 # enrich documents before sending it to ElasticSearch.  
 # When using the default docker-compose.yml the default setting will work. 
-# But, if the API-Builder process is running somewhere else (e.g. externally), you have to make 
-# this environment variable available to the Logstash Docker-Container.
+# But, if the API-Builder process is running somewhere else (e.g. in a K8S), you have to 
+# configure this environment variable correctly.
 API_BUILDER_URL=http://elk-traffic-monitor-api:8080
 
 
@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@ API_BUILDER_URL=http://elk-traffic-monitor-api:8080
 # API-Management platform (Admin-Node-Manager & API-Manager)
 
 # The Connection/URL to the Admin-Node-Manager. 
-# IMPORTANT NOTE: 
+# !!!! IMPORTANT NOTE !!!! 
 # This URL must be reachable/resolveable from within the API-Builder Docker-Container!
 ADMIN_NODE_MANAGER=https://api-env:8090
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # The Connection/URL to the API-Manager. If not given, the same as Admin-Node-Manager URL with 
 # port 8075 is used.
-# IMPORTANT NOTE: 
+# !!!! IMPORTANT NOTE !!!!
 # This URL must be reachable/resolveable from within the API-Builder Docker-Container!
 # API_MANAGER=https://api-env:8075
 
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ API_MANAGER_PASSWORD=changeme
 LOGSTASH=logstash:5044
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# This is an optional parameter used by Filebeat to set a proper name. This allows to better 
-# monitor Filebeat instances in the Kibana-Stack Monitoring dashboards. 
-# parameter.
+# This is an optional parameter used by Filebeat to set a proper name. This allows for instance 
+# to identify the different Filebeat instances in the Kibana-Stack Monitoring dashboards. 
 # Defaults to: "Filebeat Gateway"
 # FILEBEAT_NAME

docker-compose.yml

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ services:
       - setup.kibana.host=kibana:5601
       - output.elasticsearch.hosts=["elasticsearch1:9200"]
       - LOGSTASH=${LOGSTASH}
+      - ELASTIC_NODE=${ELASTIC_NODE}
     ports:
       - 9000:9000
     volumes: