{"id":27130,"date":"2017-01-14T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3985120"},"modified":"2017-01-14T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T08:30:00","slug":"five-logstash-alternatives-devopssummit-sematext-elasticsearch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/five-logstash-alternatives-devopssummit-sematext-elasticsearch\/","title":{"rendered":"Five #Logstash Alternatives | @DevOpsSummit @Sematext #Elasticsearch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the oldest shipper of this list (that would be syslog-ng, ironically the only one with &#8220;new&#8221; in its name), it&#8217;s certainly the best known. That&#8217;s because it has lots of plugins: inputs, codecs, filters and outputs. Basically, you can take pretty much any kind of data, enrich it as you wish, then push it to lots of destinations. Logstash&#8217;s main strongpoint is flexibility, due to the number of plugins. Also, its clear documentation and straightforward configuration format means it&#8217;s used in a variety of use-cases. This leads to a virtuous cycle: you can find online recipes for doing pretty much anything. Here are a few examples from us: 5 minute intro, reindexing data in Elasticsearch, parsing Elasticsearch logs, rewriting Elasticsearch slowlogs so you can replay them with JMeter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3985120\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the oldest shipper of this list (that would be syslog-ng, ironically the only one with &#8220;new&#8221; in its name), it&#8217;s certainly the best known. That&#8217;s because it has lots of plugins: inputs, codecs, filters and outputs. Basically, you can take prett&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27131,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27130\/revisions\/27131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}