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5. Configuring Logstash for Services and System Logs

Vishal Sharma

(1)New Delhi, Delhi, India

In the previous chapter, you learned how to configure Filebeat to send events to a centralized log server. In Chapter 3, you learned how to get events from the Apache access_log to your ELK Stack setup.

Today, almost every company is running multiple servers for their web sites, databases, mobile apps, and so on. We configured the ELK Stack to analyze logs at a central place for our infrastructure, so we have to watch and search all of the events.

In this chapter, you will learn how to configure different types of logs for your ELK Stack setup. Furthermore, you will learn ...

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