Logstash Syslog: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction to Logstash What is Logstash? Logstash is an open-source data processing pipeline that allows you to collect, process, and forward events and log messages. Created by Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Beats, Logstash is a key component of the Elastic Stack, also known as the ELK...
How-To Use Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana for Centralized Logging
As a system administrator or developer, it’s important to have a centralized logging infrastructure in place. It allows you to easily monitor your applications and systems, troubleshoot issues, and analyze data. In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of setting up Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK stack)...
NGiNX JSON Access Log
As of Nginx 1.11.8 you can use the parameter escape=json in your log_format definition to handle JSON encoding and escaping. Here’s a sample log format you can use. Configure the NGiNX server to use json-log definition. Example log line. Passed through jq. This takes the load off of logstash and puts it on the web server....