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Auditbeat fails to watch folders because too many files are open

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Because of the way file monitoring is implemented on macOS, you may see a warning similar to the following:

Shell 
eventreader_fsnotify.go:42: WARN [audit.file] Failed to watch /usr/bin: too many
open files (check the max number of open files allowed with 'ulimit -a')

To resolve this issue, run Auditbeat with the ulimit set to a larger value, for example:

Shell 
sudo sh -c 'ulimit -n 8192 && ./Auditbeat -e

Or:

Shell 
sudo su
ulimit -n 8192
./auditbeat -e