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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0
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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

by Pranav Shukla, Sharath Kumar
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Building the Logstash data pipeline

Having set up the mechanism to automatically create the Elasticsearch index and also the metadata database, we can now focus on building the data pipeline using Logstash. What should our data pipeline do? It should perform the following steps:

  • Accept JSON requests over the web (over HTTP)
  • Enrich the JSON with the metadata we have in the MySQL database
  • Store the resulting documents in Elasticsearch

These three main functions that we want to perform correspond exactly to the Logstash data pipeline's input, filter, and output plugins respectively. The full Logstash configuration file for this data pipeline is in the code base at https://github.com/pranav-shukla/learningelasticstack/tree/master/chapter-10/files/logstash_sensor_data_http.conf ...

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