The Logstash Book

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.