Logstash

In this blog, we will see how you can quickly setup ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack to receive the HTTP webhook. Mostly ELK stack is known for logging purposes. But Elastic stacks are much more beyond the logging use case. Elastic provides Search, Observability & Security you can check more on this with official documentation. What is Webhook ? Webhook enables the two programs to communicate or transfer the data with the help of callback functions / hooks. Now in the modern tech world it is also known as Reverse API, Push API etc. Mostly it is used to send small amounts of data from source to destination. It is a one way data transfer procedure. It works over the HTTP protocol using REST API. It is simple like client and server communication. Most of the saas allow you to integrate their product with your system with the help of APIs and Webhook only. E.g. Slack and discord allows you to push messages with the help of webhooks. To accept the webhook event, You need to expose one HTTP endpoint lets say ...

What this talk is all about ? Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Beats) is such a platform which is built for scalability, performance and “You know… for Search”. When you have a system which scales to the horizons of your data, helps you in your data quest, shows you insights - imagine what you can do with it. Talk Video Feel free to comment below, If you have any doubts or suggestion about this talk.

Goal of this blog In this blog, I am going to show you how easily we can write logs to the files in Golang. As well as we are going to store all logs on elasticsearch with EKB (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats). Why ELKB stack ? Logs are very important for debugging, reporting, insights etc. In today’s tech world, We uses multiple cloud servers, private servers etc. Which consist of lots of different applications, scripts, programs, daemons, services and they generate their logs too. It is very difficult to go to each server and check all log files in case of debugging or to generate any insights or reporting. ...