Beginning Elastic Stack

© Vishal Sharma 2016

Vishal Sharma, Beginning Elastic Stack, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1694-1_9

9. Logstash Plug-ins

Vishal Sharma¹ 

(1)New Delhi, Delhi, India

Logstash has many input plug-ins and codecs. All of the plug-ins are available as gems and hosted on rubygems.org. All of the plug-ins can be managed by bin/logstash-plugin. Using this script, you can install, uninstall, and remove plug-ins.

Note

To learn more about gems, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubyGems .

To understand better how plug-ins work, take a look at the setup diagram shown in Figure 9-1.

Figure 9-1. How plug-ins work

As you can see in Figure 9-1, when you receive data from the source, ...