Looking to learn about Logstash as quickly as possible? This article is for you: we’ll install Logstash and push some Apache logs to Elasticsearch in less than 5 minutes.
Black Friday log management (with the Elastic Stack) checklist
For this Black Friday, Sematext wishes you: more products sold more traffic and exposure more logs 🙂 Now seriously, applications tend to generate a lot more logs on Black Friday, and they also tend to break down more – making […]
Elasticsearch Training, San Francisco & New York, October
If you are using Elasticsearch and are looking for Elasticsearch training to quickly improve your Elastic Stack skills, we’ve running several Elasticsearch classes this October in San Francisco and New York. All classes are also available virtually. This means you […]
5 Logstash Alternatives
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 to aggregate logs – Alice: you […]
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 / Elastic Stack Training – NYC June 13-16
Next month, June 13-16, 2016, we will be running three Elastic Stack (aka ELK Stack) classes in New York City: June 13 & 14: Elasticsearch for Developers Training Workshop June 15: Elasticsearch Operations Training Workshop June 16: Elasticsearch for Logging Training Workshop All […]
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 […]
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, […]