# \[ANN\] output-status : Monitoring logstash with http

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-output-status-monitoring-logstash-with-http/39859>\
**Category:** Community Ecosystem\
**Created:** [January 22, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-output-status-monitoring-logstash-with-http/39859 "2016-01-22T09:55:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![athoune](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/athoune/32/7330_2.png) [@athoune](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/athoune)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-output-status-monitoring-logstash-with-http/39859/1 "2016-01-22T09:55:54Z")

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Heartbeat is a great tool to provide constant flow of events. But, what can I do with such events? logging to a file and watch the modification date? pushing the event to my monitoring tool?

Status page, juste like Elasticsearch does, is the most simple way for monitoring.

This plugin steals code from http input and elapsed filter. The status page show the latest event, and its age.

> **[bearstech/logstash-output-status](https://github.com/bearstech/logstash-output-status)**
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> logstash-output-status - Logstash output plugin for monitoring.

This plugin needs a code review.

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**Author:** ![simmel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/simmel/32/48040_2.png) [@simmel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simmel)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-output-status-monitoring-logstash-with-http/39859/2 "2016-01-22T11:48:23Z")

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Good job!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-output-status-monitoring-logstash-with-http/39859/3 "2016-01-24T03:56:29Z")

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FYI we have a section just for these sorts of posts, check out [https://discuss.elastic.co/c/annoucements/community-plugins](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/annoucements/community-plugins) 😃

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**Author:** ![athoune](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/athoune/32/7330_2.png) [@athoune](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/athoune)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-output-status-monitoring-logstash-with-http/39859/4 "2016-01-25T09:22:33Z")

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I moved this post to the right place.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-output-status-monitoring-logstash-with-http/39859/5 "2017-07-05T21:47:52Z")

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