Logstash is a popular open source data collection engine with real-time pipelining capabilities. Logstash allows us to easily build a pipeline that can help in collecting data from a wide variety of input sources, and parse, enrich, unify, and store it in a wide variety of destinations. Logstash provides a set of plugins known as input filters and output plugins, which are easy to use and are pluggable in nature, thus easing the process of unifying and normalizing huge volumes and varieties of data. Logstash does the work of the ETL engine:
Some of the salient features of logstash are as follows:
- Pluggable data pipeline architecture: Logstash contains over 200 plugins that have been developed by Elastic and the open source community, which can be used to mix, match, and orchestrate different inputs, filters, and outputs, while building pipelines for data processing...
