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Kibana Essentials

You're reading from   Kibana Essentials Use the functionalities of Kibana to discover data and build attractive visualizations and dashboards for real-world scenarios

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784394936
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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The installation of Logstash


In this section, Logstash will be installed. Logstash 1.5.4 will be installed, and the section covers the installation on Ubuntu and Windows separately.

The installation of Logstash on Ubuntu 14.04

To install Logstash on Ubuntu, perform the following steps:

  1. Download Logstash 1.5.4 as a tar file using the following command in the terminal:

    curl-L -O http://download.elastic.co/logstash/logstash/logstash-1.5.4.tar.gz
    
  2. Extract the downloaded .tar file using the following command:

    tar -xvzf logstash-1.5.4.tar.gz
    

    This will extract the files and folder into the current working directory.

  3. Navigate to the bin directory within the logstash-1.5.4 directory:

    cd logstash-1.5.4/bin
    
  4. To check whether Logstash has been installed successfully, type the following command in the terminal after navigating to the bin folder:

    logstash --version
    

    This will print the Logstash version installed.

The installation of Logstash on Windows

We can install Logstash on Windows by going through and applying...

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