Application log file integration

[Sivaprakash_Shanmuga (Siv)]

Hi

I'm looking for solutions for 2 use cases

1. Is there any plugin for mongo db to logstash? I want to import data into logstash and analyze it.

2. My application written in Python/Django, now Im writing log files into files into local disk. Is there any way to move them to logstash?

[magnusbaeck (Magnus Bäck)]

1. There's no official MongoDB input plugin, but see https://github.com/phutchins/logstash-input-mongodb.
2. Yes, use a file input. I'd use a custom JSON formatter on the Python side so that the logs can be ingested by Logstash without additional parsing.

[Sivaprakash_Shanmuga (Siv)]

Thank You

I believe file input will read from Log file hence there wont be any performance hit to my application. Is my understanding correct?

[magnusbaeck (Magnus Bäck)]

Correct, although Filebeat or Logstash itself will require some system resources but unless you're logging a lot it'll be negligible.

[Sivaprakash_Shanmuga (Siv)]

Thank you.