Logstash Plugin

This is a plugin for Logstash.

It is fully free and fully open source. The license is Apache 2.0, meaning you are pretty much free to use it however you want in whatever way.

Documentation

Logstash provides infrastructure to automatically generate documentation for this plugin. We use the asciidoc format to write documentation so any comments in the source code will be first converted into asciidoc and then into html. All plugin documentation are placed under one central location.

Need Help?

Need help? Try #logstash on freenode IRC or the https://discuss.elastic.co/c/logstash discussion forum.

Developing

1. Plugin Development and Testing

Code

  • To get started, you'll need JRuby with the Bundler gem installed.

  • Install logstash locally and add the env variable 'LOGSTASH_PATH' which points to your logstash instance, to your path.

  • Install dependencies

    bundle install

  • Run rubocop -A to run and fix Ruby style guide issues

  • Add the following to .git/hooks/pre-commit

 #!/usr/bin/env sh

 # This hook has a focus on portability.
 # This hook will attempt to setup your environment before running checks.
 #
 # If you would like `pre-commit` to get out of your way and you are comfortable
 # setting up your own environment, you can install the manual hook using:
 #
 #     pre-commit install --manual
 #

 # This is a work-around to get GitHub for Mac to be able to run `node` commands
 # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12881975/git-pre-commit-hook-failing-in-github-for-mac-works-on-command-line
 PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin


 cmd=`git config pre-commit.ruby 2>/dev/null`
 if   test -n "${cmd}"
 then true
 elif which rvm   >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
 then cmd="rvm default do ruby"
 elif which rbenv >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
 then cmd="rbenv exec ruby"
 else cmd="ruby"
 fi

 export rvm_silence_path_mismatch_check_flag=1

 ${cmd} -rrubygems -e '
   begin
     require "pre-commit"
     true
   rescue LoadError => e
     $stderr.puts <<-MESSAGE
 pre-commit: WARNING: Skipping checks because: #{e}
 pre-commit: Did you set your Ruby version?
 MESSAGE
     false
   end and PreCommit.run
 '

Test

  • Update your dependencies
bundle install
  • Run tests
bundle exec rspec

2. Running your unpublished Plugin in Logstash

2.1 Run in a local Logstash clone

  • Edit Logstash Gemfile and add the local plugin path, for example: ruby gem "logstash-filter-pilar", :path => "/your/local/logstash-filter-pilar"
  • Install plugin sh bin/logstash-plugin install --no-verify
  • Run Logstash with your plugin, you can test your code by typing a log in the command line, and the output will immediately be reflected sh bin/logstash -e 'filter {pilar {}}' Alternatively, you can include a file path for seed logs by running the following: sh bin/logstash -e 'filter { pilar { seed_logs_path => "example/file/path" } }'

At this point any modifications to the plugin code will be applied to this local Logstash setup. After modifying the plugin, simply rerun Logstash.

2.2 Run in an installed Logstash

You can use the same 2.1 method to run your plugin in an installed Logstash by editing its Gemfile and pointing the :path to your local plugin development directory or you can build the gem and install it using:

  • Build your plugin gem sh gem build logstash-filter-pilar.gemspec
  • Install the plugin from the Logstash home sh bin/logstash-plugin install /your/local/plugin/logstash-filter-pilar.gem
  • Start Logstash and proceed to test the plugin

Contributing

All contributions are welcome: ideas, patches, documentation, bug reports, complaints, and even something you drew up on a napkin.

Programming is not a required skill. Whatever you've seen about open source and maintainers or community members saying "send patches or die" - you will not see that here.

It is more important to the community that you are able to contribute.

For more information about contributing, see the CONTRIBUTING file.