Custom Agent Build

custom_agent_build.md

• Assumptions
• Create necessary temp dirs
• Build Custom Beat
• Download any other beats you need (filebeat & metricbeat are minimums)
• Build agent

Assumptions

• you want a custom version of elastic-agent
• you want a custom version of one of the beats in elastic-agent
• beats repo is ~/src/beats
• elastic-agent repo is ~/src/elastic-agent

Create necessary temp dirs

mkdir -p ~/tmp/artifacts
mkdir -p ~/tmp/agent_drop_path

Build Custom Beat

1. cd to beats directory

   cd ~/src/beats

2. checkout tag that matches the version you want

   git checkout v8.7.0

3. Make changes you want

4. Build your beat

   cd x-pack/metricbeat
   DEV=true SNAPSHOT=false PLATFORMS="linux/arm64" mage -v clean package
   cp build/distributions/metricbeat-8.7.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz* ~/tmp/artifacts

Download any other beats you need (filebeat & metricbeat are minimums)

cd ~/tmp/artifacts
curl -O -J -L https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-8.7.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz
curl -O -J -L https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-8.7.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz.sha512

Build agent

1. change to agent directory

   cd ~/src/elastic-agent

2. check out version to match the beat

   git checkout v8.7.0

3. add your beats to agent_droppath

   cp ~/tmp/artifacts/* ~/tmp/agent_drop_path

4. build elastic-agent

   DEV=true AGENT_DROP_PATH=/Users/hinman/tmp/agent_drop_path PLATFORMS="linux/arm64" PACKAGES="tar.gz" mage -v clean package

5. custom elastic-agent distribuion is in build/distribuitons