Simplifying setup and monitoring

Author: Chris Wiechmann

.env

@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ APIGATEWAY_TRACES_FOLDER=/home/localuser/Axway-x.y.z/apigateway/groups/group-2/i
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # This variable is used by the API-Builder to locate the Elasticsearch instance
-# When using the default docker-compose.yaml this setting is optional.
+# 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.
-# ELASTIC_NODE=http://elasticsearch1:9200
+ELASTIC_NODE=http://elasticsearch1:9200
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # This variable is used by Logstash to communicate with the Lookup-API, which is used to 
@@ -44,5 +44,14 @@ API_MANAGER_PASSWORD=changeme
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # This tells Filebeat where Logstash is running. 
-# When using the default docker-compose.yml the default setting will work.
-#LOGSTASH=logstash:5044
+# When using the default docker-compose.yml the following default will work.
+# If you are running Logstash somewhere else, e.g. as a service in K8S you need to change this 
+# parameter.
+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.
+# Defaults to: "Filebeat Gateway"
+# FILEBEAT_NAME

filebeat/filebeat.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: ${NAME:"Filebeat Gateway"}
+name: ${FILEBEAT_NAME:"Filebeat Gateway"}
 filebeat.inputs:
 - input_type: log
   paths: ["/var/log/work/*.log"]
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ filebeat.inputs:
     logtype: trace
 
 output.logstash:
-  hosts: ["${LOGSTASH|logstash:5044}"]
+  hosts: ["${LOGSTASH}"]
 
 processors:
   - timestamp:
@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ monitoring:
   # Get the Cluster-ID (cluster_uuid) with this simple query: http://elasticsearch1:9200/
   cluster_uuid: <YOUR_ELASTICSEARCH-CLUSTER-UUID>
   elasticsearch:
-    hosts: ["${ELASTIC_NODE|http://elasticsearch1:9200}"]
+    hosts: ["${ELASTIC_NODE}"]