
Introduction to Logstash Input Plugins
Posted by Kirill Goltsman August 22, 2018Logstash ships with many input, codec, filter, and output plugins that can be used to retrieve, transform, filter, and send logs and events from various applications, servers, and network channels.
In the previous tutorials, we discussed how to use Logstash to ship Redis logs, index emails using Logstash IMAP input plugin, and many other use cases.
In this article, we continue our journey into the rich world of Logstash input plugins focusing on the Beats family (e.g., Filebeat and Metricbeat), various file and system input plugins, network, email, and chat protocols, cloud platforms, web applications, and message brokers/platforms. Logstash currently supports over 50 input plugin — and more are coming — so covering all of them in one article is not possible. Therefore, we decided to overview some of the most popular input plugin categories to give you a general picture of what you can do with Logstash.