Mastering Elastic Stack

Features of Logstash

Among the various features of Logstash, we will have a look at the key features that differentiate Logstash other log management tools:

• Open source: Logstash is completely free to use and is an open source tool whose source code is available freely on GitHub.
• Seamless integration with Elasticsearch, Beats, and Kibana: This is a powerful data processing pipeline which is tightly coupled to fetch data from multiple systems using Beats, store the data for real-time search capabilities in Elasticsearch, and visualize the stored data using Kibana.
• Extensibility: Logstash provides a variety of inputs, filters, and outputs to use for processing logs of different types. It provides flexibility to create and develop inputs, filters, or ...