by Jurgens du Toit | Feb 4, 2015 | Logstash
Logstash comes with a number of plugins that interact with AWS, Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. This short guide will look at the configuration options for the Simple Notification Service (or SNS) output that will allow you to convert Logstash events to push...
by Jurgens du Toit | Jan 28, 2015 | Logstash, Use Cases
Humans have an innate need to communicate. Most people want to talk to other people. Data geeks want to talk to data and hope at some point it starts talking back. Logstash can’t make your data talk (yet!), but it can at least make your server talk back to you....
by Jurgens du Toit | Jan 21, 2015 | Logstash
Logstash comes with a number of plugins that interact with AWS, Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. This short guide will look at the common configuration options for these plugins. Quick Info Source: /lib/logstash/plugin_mixins/aws_config.rb Requirements: AWS...
by Jurgens du Toit | Jan 14, 2015 | Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Use Cases
The ELK stack is all about capturing data and reporting on it in a meaningful way. Tracking website visitors and traffic is also all about capturing data and reporting on it in a meaningful way. Since that’s the main aim of the ELK stack, you can very easily...