From 81deadd2b9cde891a077153c5756306c8b0f2e8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Cowan Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:56:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Documenting known workarounds --- docs/en/infraops/installation.asciidoc | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/en/infraops/installation.asciidoc b/docs/en/infraops/installation.asciidoc index 40571e1dc..baa006302 100644 --- a/docs/en/infraops/installation.asciidoc +++ b/docs/en/infraops/installation.asciidoc @@ -156,3 +156,8 @@ configuration] * {metricbeat-ref}/configuration-autodiscover.html[{metricbeat} autodiscover configuration] + +[float] +==== Known Workarounds + +*Running Metricbeat <=6.5 with Kibana 6.7*:: For Kubernetes, you will need to change the "Pod ID" field in the "Configure Source" panel to `kubernetes.pod.name`. There is a caveat for this workaround; if you have two pods with the same name, only one will be visible in the UI. From fbb253bcb43de4e16f9215650c89a5102eb246ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Cowan Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:01:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] add 6.6 specific instructions --- docs/en/infraops/installation.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/en/infraops/installation.asciidoc b/docs/en/infraops/installation.asciidoc index baa006302..787c29678 100644 --- a/docs/en/infraops/installation.asciidoc +++ b/docs/en/infraops/installation.asciidoc @@ -160,4 +160,4 @@ configuration] [float] ==== Known Workarounds -*Running Metricbeat <=6.5 with Kibana 6.7*:: For Kubernetes, you will need to change the "Pod ID" field in the "Configure Source" panel to `kubernetes.pod.name`. There is a caveat for this workaround; if you have two pods with the same name, only one will be visible in the UI. +*Running Metricbeat <=6.5 with Kibana 6.6+*:: For Kubernetes, you will need to change the "Pod ID" field in the "Configure Source" panel (`xpack.infra.sources.default.fields.pod` in `config/kibana.yml` for Kibana 6.6) to `kubernetes.pod.name`. There is a caveat for this workaround; if you have two pods with the same name, only one will be visible in the UI.