Last updated on Dec 14, 2017 When it comes to centralizing logs to Elasticsearch, the first log shipper that comes to mind is Logstash. People hear about it even if it’s not clear what it does: – Bob: I’m looking […]
Elastic Stack Import-Export with Logstash & Logsene
In earlier posts, we explained how one can reindex data from one Elasticsearch cluster to another, or within the same Elasticsearch cluster, via tools like Logstash and rsyslog. The same recipes apply to Logsene, as it exposes the Elasticsearch API. […]
Elasticsearch Ingest Node vs Logstash Performance
Starting from Elasticsearch 5.0, you’ll be able to define pipelines within it that process your data, in the same way you’d normally do it with something like Logstash. We decided to take it for a spin and see how this […]
Logagent-js – alternative to logstash, filebeat, fluentd, rsyslog?
What is the easiest way to parse, ship and analyze my web server logs? You should know that I’m a Node.js fan boy and not very thrilled with the idea of running a heavy process like Logstash on my low memory server, hosting my […]
Sending your Windows Event Logs to Logsene using NxLog and Logstash
There are a lot of sources of logs these days. Some may come from mobile devices, some from your Linux servers used to host data, while other can be related to your Docker containers. They are all supported by Logsene. What’s more, […]
Recipe: rsyslog + Kafka + Logstash
This recipe is similar to the previous rsyslog + Redis + Logstash one, except that we’ll use Kafka as a central buffer and connecting point instead of Redis. You’ll have more of the same advantages: rsyslog is light and crazy-fast, […]
Recipe: rsyslog + Redis + Logstash
OK, so you want to hook up rsyslog with Logstash. If you don’t remember why you want that, let me give you a few hints: Logstash can do lots of things, it’s easy to set up but tends to be […]
Replaying Elasticsearch Slowlogs with Logstash and JMeter
Sometimes we just need to replay production queries – whether it’s because we want a realistic load test for the new version of a product or because we want to reproduce, in a test environment, a bug that only occurs […]
Handling Stack Traces with Logstash
Here at Sematext we use Java (8!) and rely on Logsene, our hosted ELK logging SaaS a lot. We like them so much that we regularly share our logging experience with everyone and help others with logging, especially, ELK stack. […]