by Jurgens du Toit | May 5, 2015 | Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash
One of the things I love about DigitalOcean is their applications. You can spin up a droplet to run a number of popular stacks. From LAMP, Redmine and Ghost, to Docker, Django and WordPress. My favourite, of course, is the ELK stack application. It’s a Ubuntu...
by Jurgens du Toit | Apr 28, 2015 | Logstash
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...
by Jurgens du Toit | Apr 15, 2015 | Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch doesn’t come with any type of security out of the box. It’s so open and accessible, anyone can destroy all of your data with a single call. Yes, there is protection against the DELETE call, but it is possible. Recently Elastic released the...
by Jurgens du Toit | Apr 1, 2015 | Logstash
This short guide will look at the HTTP output for Logstash. HTTP is ubiquitous on the Internet. So much so that most people don’t even know they use it every day. Most API’s out there use HTTP. Logstash provides both an HTTP input and output, enabling you...
by Jurgens du Toit | Mar 20, 2015 | Logstash
This short guide will look at the TCP input for Logstash. TCP is a stream protocol with which data can be sent over a network. It forms part of the TCP/IP protocol suite that forms the core of network communication on the internet. This input will allow you to set...