How to Send logstash logs directly to elastic?

[rkhapre (RK)]

Hi all

Can we send logstash logs directly to elastic?.
Currently it sits under logs folder as physical .log files

Is there any way we can do so?

[Krunal_kalaria]

Hi @rkhapre,

Yes you can send logs directly to in elasticsearch using logstash configuration file you need to create one config file for send the data into elasticsearch

following is an example:
test.conf:

input
{
file
{
path => "/usr/share/logstash/bin/file.log" #Your Log File Path
}
}

output
{
elassticsearch
{
hosts => ["YOUR ELASTICSEARCH IP:9200"]
index => "test"
}
stdout{}
}

if you are using x-pack in Elastic Stack then you have to mention in this elasticsearch{ user => username and password => password}.

then run this using ./logstash -f test.conf

Thanks & Regards,
Krunal.

[rkhapre (RK)]

Hi,

As i mentioned, i need to send this directly to ES

With your conf file, first i am flushing the log files physically to a log folder and then streaming it to ES.

I am looking for solution wherein , i dont output the log file, but the logs should stream directly to ES. This i want to do, to avoid unnecessary Disk Space