Getting logstash to run

[tractor_boy]

I have downloaded the 7.15 version on logstash and unzipped. Unfortunately the lack of an installer leaves the solution in a non working state.

My current - first - challenge is getting logstash to use the bundled jdk. I cannot change the java that is being used as that is required by other components, so need to set up logstash to run its own jdk. (Hopefully it runs a jre in production?)

[Badger]

@tractor_boy

so need to set up logstash to run its own jdk. (Hopefully it runs a jre in production?)

logstash comes bundled with a JDK, not a JRE. I have no idea why they would do that.

logstash will use the bundled JDK unless JAVA_HOME is set in the environment. So you can set JAVA_HOME= before running logstash.bat