Logstash: Concepts and Components

Learn about Logstash Concenpts and Components: Inputs plugins, Filter plugins, Output plugins

Logstash Layout

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/introduction.html

Input

Work With

• Local Storage: Using “Filebeat”
• Networks
• Web
• Data stores and streams
• Sensors and IoT

Filter

• Role: Parsing, Enriching and Transforming the Data.

Popular Plugins

• grok: parsing arbitrage data
• mutate: general transformation
• drop: filtering

Outputs

Work With

• Elasticsearch
• AWS S3
• Files