by Jurgens du Toit | Dec 4, 2015 | Logstash
We’ve previously released the Logstash CloudWatch Input plugin to fetch CloudWatch metrics from AWS. Since then we’ve realized that it’s not as complete or as configurable as we’d like it to be. So we’ve refactored it significantly,...
by Jurgens du Toit | Sep 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Since both Slack and Logstash have IRC integrations, I decided to try and connect Elasticsearch to a Slack instance. Here’s how to do it: Slack Setup Access to slack using IRC is set up per user. So you can either use your current user, or create a dedicated...
by Jurgens du Toit | Jul 28, 2015 | Logstash
One of the killer features of Logstash is it’s extensibility: You can use various official and unofficial plugins to add the functionality you need to Logstash. Further to that, if you can’t find an existing plugin, it’s relatively simple to write...
by Jurgens du Toit | Jun 17, 2015 | Logstash
UPDATE: We’ve released a significantly updated version of this input. See this post for more details. Amazon’s CloudWatch service provides statistics on various metrics for AWS services. You can track CPU Utilization and credit usage on EC2, the amount of...
by Jurgens du Toit | May 12, 2015 | Logstash
This short guide will look at the Logstash Metrics filter. It often happens that you’re not interested in actual events, but just the number of times an event occurs in a specific period of time. Logstash supports counting events and measuring their velocity...