Tag: Event Pipeline

How to Install Logstash

Posted on August 17, 2020 by Justin Palmer | Updated: March 8, 2021

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Apt Transport HTTPS, Data Filters, Data Pipeline, Data Processing, ElasticSearch, ELK, Event Pipeline, Java, Java JDK, Kibana, Log Collector, Log Collectors, Log Files, Logs, Logstash, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 18.04

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What is Logstash?

Logstash is a free, open source, server-side data collection and processing engine which uses dynamic pipelining capabilities. It takes in information from multiple data sources, reconstructs it, and then sends it to a destination of our choice. Logstash also cleans and modifies the data for use in an advanced outbound analytics and visualization use cases. It is the L in the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) and is typically responsible for sending data to Elasticsearch.

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