A look into Logstash
Logstash is a key part of the Elastic Stack, also known as the ELK Stack. The Elastic Stack, developed by Elastic (https://www.elastic.co), is famous for its Elasticsearch search engine, which helps you search, analyze, and visualize large amounts of data quickly. The stack includes Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats, each with its own role in handling data.
Logstash is designed for collecting, transforming, and loading data, and it’s particularly well-known for processing log events. It uses inputs, filters, and outputs to gather data from different sources, process it, and then send it to various destinations. Let’s take a closer look at its overall architecture.
Logstash architecture
Logstash’s architecture consists of what is called a pipeline. A Logstash pipeline is made up of a series of plugins that work together to handle data: input plugins to extract data, filter plugins to transform it, and output plugins to load...
