Filebeat fails to start on moma

The filebeat process doesn't start in moma with this error :

Sep 15 07:35:37 moma filebeat[1747745]: 2020-09-15T07:35:37.377Z        INFO        instance/beat.go:310        Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 7.8.0
Sep 15 07:35:37 moma filebeat[1747745]: 2020-09-15T07:35:37.378Z        INFO        [publisher]        pipeline/module.go:113        Beat name: moma
Sep 15 07:35:37 moma filebeat[1747745]: 2020-09-15T07:35:37.379Z        INFO        instance/beat.go:436        filebeat stopped.
Sep 15 07:35:37 moma filebeat[1747745]: 2020-09-15T07:35:37.379Z        ERROR        instance/beat.go:958        Exiting: 1 error: setting 'filebeat.prospectors' has been removed
Sep 15 07:35:37 moma filebeat[1747745]: Exiting: 1 error: setting 'filebeat.prospectors' has been removed
Sep 15 07:35:37 moma systemd[1]: filebeat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

The configuration use the keyworkd filebeat.prospectors which was removed in filebeat 6.3 [1]

• [1] https://www.elastic.co/blog/brewing-in-beats-rename-filebeat-prospectors-to-inputs

---

Migrated from T2591 (view on Phabricator)