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Mastering Elastic Stack

You're reading from   Mastering Elastic Stack Dive into data analysis with a pursuit of mastering ELK Stack on real-world scenarios.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460011
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ravi Kumar Gupta Ravi Kumar Gupta
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Yuvraj Gupta Yuvraj Gupta
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Elastic Stack Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Stepping into Elasticsearch 3. Exploring Logstash and Its Plugins 4. Kibana Interface 5. Using Beats 6. Elastic Stack in Action 7. Customizing Elastic Stack 8. Elasticsearch APIs 9. X-Pack: Security and Monitoring 10. X-Pack: Alerting, Graph, and Reporting 11. Best Practices 12. Case Study-Meetup

Types of Plugins


Let's have a look at some of the plugins in the following sections.

Input plugins

The various input plugins available in Logstash are shown in the following figure:

Refer to the link: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.1/input-plugins.html

Filter plugins

The various filter plugins available in Logstash are as follows:

Refer to the link: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.1/filter-plugins.html

Output plugins

The various output plugins available in Logstash are as follows:

Refer to the link: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.1/output-plugins.html

As we have covered the different sections of plugins available in configuration file i.e. Input, Filter and Output Plugin. But, there is another set of plugin which doesn't have a different section altogether but it is part of Input and Output Plugin.

Codec plugins

Codec plugins are part of the input or output that change the representation of data of an event. They can be called stream-filters, as they provide...

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