logstash-salt

A Logstash-Elasticsearch-Kibana stack built with Vagrant and Salt

Installation

• Install Virtualbox
• Install Vagrant
• Install Salty Vagrant: vagrant plugin install vagrant-salt
• vagrant up (This will take a while; Vagrant will download and add the Virtualbox, then Salt will bootstrap and configure the machine)
• vagrant ssh to access the machine

Running the Logstash stack

• From the machine's CLI, cd /vagrant
• Download the Logstash jar and sample Apache log file
• Expand the sample log: bunzip2 apache_log.2.bz2
• Run Logstash: java -jar logstash-1.2.2-flatjar.jar agent -f apache-elasticsearch.conf
• From a separate command line, feed the Apache log to logstash: nc localhost 3333 < apache_log.2
• When this is finished, try loading Kibana at http://localhost:15001/index.html