Log Analysis
- Every logging mechanism will have levels, most widely adopted levels are
- INFO: This is informational log
- DEBUG: This is informative log
- ERROR: This represents errors
- CRITICAL/FATAL: This represents serious system failures
- Logs are time based information.
- In Elastic Stack we have logstash which can extract the logs, transform and load into elastic search for querying/visualizations
- Logstash does the transformations with the help of plugins
- input plugins: to read from different sources Refer Here for input plugins supported by logstash
- filter plugins: to transform the log Refer Here for filter plugins
- output plugins: to store the output to different sources Refer Here for output plugins
- Installing logstash:
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