I've been playing about with the Elastic stack and Beats recently with the aim of setting up a distributed logging and attribution platform. Thus far I've been really impressed with Beats and the excellent dashboards which are provided in Kibana but for me there's one problem which is stopping me from rolling this out - the lack of support logstash output for Beats modules. The system we'll be using has Apache NiFi in the middle for enrichment and routing so for us to use beats we really need to be able to feed into that.
I see that this limitation is explained well well within the docs but I was wondering if logstash output support for the modules is on the roadmap for any time soon?
Yes, I'm talking about the module pipelines - eg. in filebeat there's the system module which allows you to use the rather excellent dashboards for syslog, ssh logins etc. If you use the logstash output you cannot utilise these dashboards without having to convert all the ingest node pipelines to logstash config, something which is a massive faff
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