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...Using the ELK Logging Stack Application on Digital Ocean
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...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...The Logstash Config Guide
Pain Free Logstash Configuration
