Loglens Logstash Output Plugin

This is a plugin for Logstash.

Documentation

Environment

• To get started, you'll need JRuby with the Bundler gem installed.

• You'll also need maven since this plugin also contains Java code which is built using maven

• Install dependencies

bundle install

Build and install Gem in Logstash

• Go to the root path of the Loglens plugin
• Compile the maven project

mvn compile

• Package the maven project

mvn package

• Build your plugin gem

gem build logstash-output-loglens.gemspec

• Install the plugin from the Logstash home

/path/to/logstash/bin/plugin install /your/local/plugin/logstash-output-loglens-0.0.1-java.gem

Run the Loglens Logstash plugin

• Create Logstash config file, e.g.

# a random input... e.g. a file
input {
  file {
    path => "some file"
  }
}

#the config of the loglens output plugin
output {
  loglens {
    url => "the url"
    index => "loglens index"
    category => "loglens" # the scribe category
    oauth2_token => "your oauth2 bearer token"
    is_debug => true # if true it will just print to stdout what it would send
  }
}

• Start Logstash and proceed to test the plugin

/path/to/logstash/bin/logstash -f <configfile>