Getting started with logstash

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:35:00 +0800

Logstash is a tool for doing fancy stuff with log files. Its main purpose is to help administrators/IT staff with the monitoring of logs, specifically it can be used to push logs to a central location where the logs are stored and indexed for later searching. A basic logstash setup (like the one I am implementing at work) consists of log shippers (web servers and database servers) and then one server where the logs are stored, indexed and searched (in my case this is a Ubuntu server).

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Getting started with logstash