Logstash Installation

Logstash is one of the software from Elastic stack to collect logs from different data sources and send logs to Elastic search. It will take data from different sources and process data as per our requirements.

 

 

Software and Tools

Windows 10 Java 1.8 or higher logstash-7.13.3

 

 

Download and Extract

Go to elastic search download page and download Logstash.

 

https://www.elastic.co/downloads/logstash

 

Direct link as follows

 

https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/logstash/logstash-7.13.3-windows-x86_64.zip

 

Extract downloaded zip in local drive

 

 

 

Start Logstash

Open command prompt and locate to bin directory of Logstash and use below command to start.

logstash.bat -e "input { stdin { } } output { stdout {} }"

 

Actually, we need to pass Logstash configuration file as input to start command but we have not decided input/output configuration so we just started with dummy input/output.

 

Finally, Logstash API can be accessible on 9600 port

 

http://localhost:9600/

 

 

 

Reference

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

Author

Meera Prince

Liferay Contributor of the Year 2016
Liferay Top Contributor Award Winner 2015

Liferay Contributor of the Year 2014

Liferay Top Contributor Award Winner 2013

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