Logstash is the central dataflow engine in the Elastic Stack for gathering, enriching, and unifying all of your data regardless of format or schema. The real-time processing is especially powerful when coupled with Elasticsearch, Kibana, and also Beats. In this video, Sr. Product Manager, Alvin Chen, and Logstash Team Lead, Andrew Cholakian, give an overview and demo on how to get started with Logstash.
Highlights include:
- Logstash pipeline concepts and terminology
- Internal architecture and important settings
- Plugins ecosystem and management
- Installing and running Logstash
- Common use cases