Logstash CloudWatch input plugin Updated

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,...

How to write a Logstash plugin

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...

Logstash CloudWatch input plugin

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...

How to Configure the Logstash Metrics filter

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...

How to Configure the Logstash Date filter

Even though Logstash is great for parsing events as they happen, you can also use it to process historical data. Normally logstash will timestamp an event with the time when the event was initially processed. This isn’t ideal when you’re trying to analyze...