Logstash

Last week, I wrote about how one could start developing one’s Logstash plugin coming from a Java developer background. However, with the acquisition of Packetbeat, Logstash now has help from Beats to push data to Elasticsearch. Beats are developed in Go, another challenge for traditional Java developers. This week, I tried porting my Logstash Reddit plugin to a dedicated Beat. This post documents my findings (spoiler: I found it much easier than with Ruby). Setting up the environment On

I recently became interested in Logstash, and after playing with it for a while, I decided to create my own custom plugin for learning purpose. I chose to pull data from Reddit because a) I use it often and b) there’s no existing plugin that offers that.