Why developers like Logstash

What is Logstash?

Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). If you store them in Elasticsearch, you can view and analyze them with Kibana.

Logstash is a tool in the Log Management category of a tech stack.

Logstash is an open source tool with 69 GitHub stars and 3.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Logstash's open source repository on GitHub

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Who uses Logstash?

Companies

1228 companies reportedly use Logstash in their tech stacks, including Airbnb, Udemy, and Robinhood.

Airbnb

Udemy

Robinhood

Accenture

Hepsiburada

trivago

colondee :D

Typeform

Developers

9757 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Logstash.

Personal

Hitalo Silva

Grofers

SuperCarers

Personal Tech Stack

Oracle Cloud PaaS

tescom's private ...

Game Big Data

Fernando Silveira

Logstash Integrations

Elasticsearch, Kibana, Rollbar, PagerDuty, and Graphite are some of the popular tools that integrate with Logstash. Here's a list of all 24 tools that integrate with Logstash.

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Rollbar

PagerDuty

Graphite

Netdata

OpsGenie

Filebeat

Beats

Pros of Logstash

Free

Easy but powerful filtering

Scalable

Kibana provides machine learning based analytics to log

Great to meet GDPR goals

Well Documented

Decisions about Logstash

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Logstash in their tech stack.

Juan Felipe

Developer · Oct 20, 2021 | 10 upvotes · 198.9K views

Needs advice

Golang

Grafana

and

Logstash

Hi everyone. I'm trying to create my personal syslog monitoring.

To get the logs, I have uncertainty to choose the way: 1.1 Use Logstash like a TCP server. 1.2 Implement a Go TCP server.
To store and plot data. 2.1 Use Elasticsearch tools. 2.2 Use InfluxDB and Grafana.

I would like to know... Which is a cheaper and scalable solution?

Or even if there is a better way to do it.

TARUN JAIN

Jul 20, 2020 | 6 upvotes · 131.7K views

Needs advice

Bugfender

Bugsnag

and

Crashlytics

I am also considering Logstash.

I want to add a remote debugging tool for my application, and my application is currently live in 10 countries. So, the scale is quite big. Can you help me choose the best client-side debugging tool? Also, are there any tools available in the market that provide 3rd party server integration too?

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Blog Posts

Observability with the ELK Stack

May 21 2019 at 12:20AM

Elastic

5283

Stream & Go: News Feeds for Over 300 Million End Users

Jan 18 2018 at 7:43AM

Stream

+42

40913

How Troops Uses Scala To Process Millions of Salesforce Record...

Aug 26 2016 at 8:06AM

Troops

+26

5421

The Stack That Helped Medium Scale To 2.6 Millennia Of Reading...

Oct 22 2015 at 8:05AM

Medium

+37

122

38133

How Tilt Is Building The Fastest Growing Crowdfunding Platform

Jul 24 2015 at 5:58AM

Tilt

+27

5686

How 500px serves up over 500TB of high res photos

May 15 2015 at 3:43PM

500px

+44

109

50758

Logstash's Features

Centralize data processing of all types
Normalize varying schema and formats
Quickly extend to custom log formats
Easily add plugins for custom data source

Logstash Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Logstash?

Fluentd

Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Fluentd helps you unify your logging infrastructure.

Splunk

It provides the leading platform for Operational Intelligence. Customers use it to search, monitor, analyze and visualize machine data.

Kafka

Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.

Beats

Beats is the platform for single-purpose data shippers. They send data from hundreds or thousands of machines and systems to Logstash or Elasticsearch.

Graylog

Centralize and aggregate all your log files for 100% visibility. Use our powerful query language to search through terabytes of log data to discover and analyze important information.

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