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We’ve previously released the Logstash CloudWatch Input plugin to fetch CloudWatch metrics from AWS. Since then we’ve realized that it’s not as complete or as configurable as we’d like it to be. So we’ve refactored it significantly, making sure that...

Since both Slack and Logstash have IRC integrations, I decided to try and connect Elasticsearch to a Slack instance. Here’s how to do it:
Slack Setup
Access to slack using IRC is set up per user. So you can either use your current user, or create a dedicated user for the integration. It’s probably better to create a new user, since you’ll be storing the login credentials in plain text wherever you...

One of the killer features of Logstash is it’s extensibility: You can use various official and unofficial plugins to add the functionality you need to Logstash. Further to that, if you can’t find an existing plugin, it’s relatively simple to write your...

UPDATE: We’ve released a significantly updated version of this input. See this post for more details.
Amazon’s CloudWatch service provides statistics on various metrics for AWS services. You can track CPU Utilization and credit usage on EC2, the amount of time a volume is idle on EBS, and the number of messages published, delivered and failed on SNS...