Searching Slack using Elasticsearch
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...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...The Logstash Config Guide
Pain Free Logstash Configuration
