February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
10h 55m
English
Logstash is an open source data collection engine with real-time pipeline capabilities. Put simply, it collects, parses, processes, and stores data. Since Logstash has data pipeline capabilities, it helps you to process any event data, such as logs, from a variety of systems. Logstash runs as an agent that collects the data, parses it, filters it, and sends the output to a designated app, such as Elasticsearch, or as simple standard output on a console.
It also has a very good plugin ecosystem (image sourced from www.elastic.co):

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