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Published inMar 2022
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Asjad Athick
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Asjad Athick

Asjad Athick is a security specialist at Elastic with demonstratable experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions on the cloud. He believes in empowering people with the right tools to help them achieve their goals. At Elastic, he works with a broad range of customers across Australia and New Zealand to help them understand their environment; this allows them to build robust threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities. He previously worked in the telecommunications space to build a security capability to help analysts identify and contextualize unknown cyber threats. With a background in application development and technology consulting, he has worked with various small businesses and start-up organizations across Australia.
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Introduction to Logstash

In Chapter 6, Collecting and Shipping Data with Beats, we explored how a key characteristic of modern IT environments is the concept of valuable data being generated in multiple parts of the technology stack. While Beats go a long way in collecting this data to send to Elasticsearch, a key challenge is transforming data to make it useful for search and analysis.

Logstash is a flexible Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tool designed to solve this problem. While Logstash has no real dependency on Elasticsearch and Beats and can be used for any generic ETL use case, it plays a key role as part of the Elastic Stack.

Logstash is generally used in two main ways as part of the Elastic Stack:

  • As an aggregation point for data prior to ingestion (push model):

Logstash can act as the receiver for data from sources such as Beats agents or Syslog streams. It can also listen for data over HTTP for any compatible source system to send events through.

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Asjad Athick is a security specialist at Elastic with demonstratable experience in architecting enterprise-scale solutions on the cloud. He believes in empowering people with the right tools to help them achieve their goals. At Elastic, he works with a broad range of customers across Australia and New Zealand to help them understand their environment; this allows them to build robust threat detection, prevention, and response capabilities. He previously worked in the telecommunications space to build a security capability to help analysts identify and contextualize unknown cyber threats. With a background in application development and technology consulting, he has worked with various small businesses and start-up organizations across Australia.
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