Sematext engineer and Elasticsearch / Logstash expert Rafal Kuc is giving a talk about using Logstash and Elasticsearch together at DevOps Days Warsaw on September 26. The talk is titled “From zero to hero: easy log centralization with Logstash and Elasticsearch” and it will be livestreamed and available afterward as a video. Details will be posted here and @sematext in late September.
Here is the common logging problem that Rafal is going to address: digging through logs to find one particular event — or group of them. And going even further into this pain point — what if you have lots of servers and you don’t have a single place to look for logs? Let’s face it, you can end up spending hours digging through log files to find events you are interested in and manually correlating them with events from different sources. If you have read this far into this post then chances are you have been there, done that.
And here is how Rafal’s talk could benefit people working with Logstash and Elasticsearch: he is going to guide attendees/viewers through the basics of using Logstash and Elasticsearch together as the perfect combination for handling logs from multiple applications. So if you want to see how Logstash + Elasticsearch can help you, this is a great opportunity to do so. Attendees/viewers will learn how to set up Logstash, how to configure it to parse logs and, finally, sending them to an Elasticsearch cluster.
Rafal will also discuss tuning Elasticsearch for log management and centralized logging purposes, and show how to easily switch between shipping logs to a self-hosted solution like Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana (ELK) and instead ship logs to Logsene Log Management and Analytics by changing a single line in Logstash configuration.
Last but not least — Rafal should be at the event both days (September 25 & 26). So if you are going to attend in person and have some Logstash and/or Elasticsearch topics you’d like to discuss with an expert, then reach out to him on Twitter – @kucrafal
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