Logstash Plugin

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This project is developed and maintained by Dynatrace R&D.

A Logstash output plugin for sending logs to the Dynatrace Generic log ingest API v2.

Documentation

Logstash provides plugin documentation in a central location.

Developing

1. Plugin Developement and Testing

Code

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

  • Clone the plugin from github

  • Install dependencies

bundle install

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 Running your unpublished Plugin in Logstash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:
gem "logstash-output-dynatrace", :path => "/your/local/logstash-output-dynatrace"
  • Install plugin
# Logstash 2.3 and higher
bin/logstash-plugin install --no-verify

# Prior to Logstash 2.3
bin/plugin install --no-verify
  • Run Logstash with your plugin
bin/logstash -e \
    'input { generator { count => 100 } } output { dynatrace { api_key => "your_api_key_here" ingest_endpoint_url => "https://{your-environment-id}.live.dynatrace.com/api/v2/logs/ingest" } }'

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
gem build logstash-output-dynatrace.gemspec
  • Install the plugin from the Logstash home
# Logstash 2.3 and higher
bin/logstash-plugin install --no-verify

# Prior to Logstash 2.3
bin/plugin install --no-verify
  • 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.