cloud.id and cloud.auth params incorrect

[axc274]

The filebeat::cloud parameter is a hash in the module that expects your cloud.id and cloud.auth credentials. However when doing so the following gets outputted to the filebeat.yml config:

Sorry for the screenshot , I couldn't get the formatting right in this post.
The filebeat config does not recognize this configuration, it expects the cloud.id and .auth key/value pairs to be at the top-level of the config. As such it expects an outputs value as well. With Elastic cloud you are not required to specify an output if you have a cloud ID. Elastic cloud will not let you specify both an output AND a cloud id.

relevant error messages with the cloud hash are:
2021-05-25T16:12:50.267-0400 INFO instance/beat.go:280 Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 6.8.15 2021-05-25T16:12:50.267-0400 INFO instance/beat.go:309 No outputs are defined. Please define one under the output section. 2021-05-25T16:12:50.267-0400 INFO instance/beat.go:359 filebeat stopped. 2021-05-25T16:12:50.268-0400 ERROR instance/beat.go:906 Exiting: No outputs are defined. Please define one under the output section.

If i manually remove the cloud has and just keep the id and auth section, it works as expected.

The module currently does not support a filebeat::cloud.id and filebeat::cloud.auth (or similar) in hiera

[pcfens]

Filebeat parses YAML in a way the dot notation cloud.id: foo is equivalent to

cloud:
  id: foo

Because things seem to be working when you leave out the cloud. part I think things are working as expected. Can you try defining something like

class { '::filebeat':
  cloud => {
    id   => 'id_string',
    auth => 'auth_string',
  },
}

If you're using an (e)yaml hiera backend things will look something like

filebeat::cloud:
  id: id_string
  auth: auth_string

should work.