I'm using filebeat to read some log files and I need to start filebeat using a Java program. And the filebeat commands are executed using the Windows PowerShell. I used the following code but it didn't work.
try {
ProcessBuilder b1 = new ProcessBuilder("powershell.exe", "/c", "cd \"C:\\Program Files\\Filebeat\" && ./filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml -d \"publish\"\\");
b1.redirectErrorStream(true);
Process p1 = b1.start();
BufferedReader r1 = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p1.getInputStream()));
String line1;
while (true) {
line1 = r1.readLine();
if (line1 == null) { break; }
System.out.println(line1);
}
} catch(Exception e) {
}
The below code worked.
ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("C:\\Program Files\\Filebeat\\filebeat.exe", "-c", "C:\\Program Files\\Filebeat\\filebeat.yml", "-e");
pb.redirectErrorStream(true);
Process p = pb.start();
BufferedReader bri = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = bri.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
p.waitFor();