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Anurag Srivastava
Anurag Srivastava
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Anurag Srivastava

Anurag Srivastava is a senior technical lead in a multinational software company. He has more than 12 years' experience in web-based application development. He is proficient in designing architecture for scalable and highly available applications. He has handled development teams and multiple clients from all over the globe over the past 10 years of his professional career. He has significant experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) for creating dashboards using system metrics data, log data, application data, and relational databases. He has authored three other booksMastering Kibana 6.x, and Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide, and Learning Kibana 7 - Second Edition, all published by Packt.
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Configuring Logstash to get data

In the previous section, we covered how to get data in Elasticsearch using different Beats. They're easy to install, configure, and then you can start receiving data from the server. Sometimes we need to do more than just configure a specific, single-purpose Beats that sits on the server and sends data to an Elasticsearch cluster and for the Logstash that's there. Logstash is a data pipeline we can use to configure input to take data from multiple types of data sources, such as files, databases, CSV, or Kafka, and after taking the input, we can configure the output to send data on different sources, such as files, databases, Kafka, or Elasticsearch. Another important feature of Logstash is filter, using which we can transform the input data before sending it to the output. Let's check out a Logstash configuration format:

input 
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Anurag Srivastava

Anurag Srivastava is a senior technical lead in a multinational software company. He has more than 12 years' experience in web-based application development. He is proficient in designing architecture for scalable and highly available applications. He has handled development teams and multiple clients from all over the globe over the past 10 years of his professional career. He has significant experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) for creating dashboards using system metrics data, log data, application data, and relational databases. He has authored three other booksMastering Kibana 6.x, and Kibana 7 Quick Start Guide, and Learning Kibana 7 - Second Edition, all published by Packt.
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