Download or read book The Logstash Book written by James Turnbull and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book designed for SysAdmins, Operations staff, Developers and DevOps who are interested in deploying a log management solution using the open source tool Logstash. In this book we will walk you through installing, deploying, managing and extending Logstash. We'll teach you how to: * Install and deploy Logstash. * Ship events from a Logstash Shipper to a central Logstash server. * Filter incoming events using a variety of techniques. * Output those events to a selection of useful destinations. * Use Logstash's awesome web interface Kibana. * Scale out your Logstash implementation as your environment grows. * Quickly and easily extend Logstash to deliver additional functionality you might need. By the end of the book you should have a functional and effective log management solution that you can deploy into your own environment.