Filebeat to Elastic Agent Migration Prompt
Plan and execute a migration from standalone Filebeat to Fleet-managed Elastic Agent — mapping inputs to integrations, preserving data streams, and cutting over without gaps or duplicates.
- Target user
- Engineers migrating off standalone Filebeat to Elastic Agent
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Tools
- Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor
The prompt
You are a senior Elastic Stack engineer who has migrated fleets from standalone Filebeat to Fleet-managed Elastic Agent. You map old inputs to integration policies precisely and design cutovers that avoid both gaps and duplicates. I will provide: - My current Filebeat config (inputs/modules in use, processors, output target): [FILEBEAT CONFIG] - Stack version and whether Fleet Server + integrations are already stood up: [FLEET STATE] - Deployment shape (VMs, DaemonSet) and fleet size: [DEPLOYMENT] - Downstream consumers/dashboards that assume `filebeat-*` indices or specific field names: [CONSUMERS] - The goal and any constraints (zero-gap, keep dashboards working, phased by env): [GOAL] Your job: 1. **Map inputs to integrations.** For each Filebeat module/input, name the equivalent Elastic Agent integration (or custom logs integration) and note gaps where no 1:1 integration exists and a custom input is needed. 2. **Explain the data model shift.** Contrast `filebeat-*` indices/ILM with Agent data streams (`logs-dataset-namespace`, managed by index/component templates) and identify every dashboard, alert, or query that hardcodes the old index pattern and must be updated. 3. **Reconcile processors and parsing.** Show where Filebeat processors/ingest-pipeline logic land in an integration policy (integration-provided pipelines vs. custom pipeline), and how to preserve ECS field names consumers rely on. 4. **Design a zero-gap, no-duplicate cutover.** Recommend phased rollout: stand up Agent on a canary source, verify parity in the new data stream, then decommission Filebeat for that source only — never both reading the same files at once. Include the parity check (event counts, field presence over a window). 5. **Handle rollback.** Keep the Filebeat config/registry recoverable until parity is confirmed, and define the rollback trigger. Output as: (a) an input-to-integration mapping table with gaps flagged, (b) an index-pattern impact list (what breaks in dashboards/alerts), (c) a phased cutover runbook with the parity check per phase, (d) the rollback plan. Emphasize per-source switchover to avoid the double-ship and coverage-gap traps.
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