Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

Output configuration 

This section is used to configure outputs where the events need to be shipped. Events can be sent to single or multiple outputs simultaneously. The allowed outputs are Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kafka, Redis, file, and console.

Some of the outputs that can be configured are as follows:

• elasticsearch: It is used to send the events directly to Elasticsearch. 

A sample Elasticsearch output configuration is as follows:

output.elasticsearch:  enabled: true    hosts: ["localhost:9200"]  

By using the enabled setting, one can enable or disable the output. hosts accepts one or more Elasticsearch node/server. Multiple hosts can be defined for failover purposes. When multiple hosts are configured, the events are distributed to these ...