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.caption logstash logo from the [[https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash][official logstash site]]
-* What is it?
-
-- Now a project of elastic
-- Used to be log-focused
-
-.image img/logstash-img1.png
-
-
-* What does it do?
+* What is it and what does it do?
"Centralize, Transform & Stash your data"
@@ -35,6 +27,8 @@ https://sillymon.ch
- "Filters" for cleaning and transforming
- "Outputs" for archiving, alerting, monitoring, etc.
+Using text-based formats as the data representation
+
* "Centralize, Transform & Stash"
@@ -82,15 +76,6 @@ Custom configuration language
}
-* Some statistics
-
-- Written in Ruby
-- ~25K LOC in 377 files
-- 360+ contributors
-- 7'600+ commits
-- 7'000+ stars
-
-
* Stasher
@@ -113,7 +98,7 @@ Code available at
1. Interfaces
2. Manager
-3. Unfinished stuff (error handling, registry and config parser)
+3. Especially unfinished stuff: error handling, config parser and the Registry
* Interfaces
@@ -177,7 +162,6 @@ manager/manager.go
* Main advantages over shell script
- Error handling
-
- Declarative config
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* Config parser
- Currently only supports string literals (no arrays)
-
- Hand-written parser
-
- Uses the Registry to get the modules
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* Implemented modules
- input: stdin, http
-
- filter: str(ing), http
-
- output: stdout, http
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- Watch input directories
- Multiple modules for each main module
- Proper (configurable?) error handling
-- If else?
-* Considerations
+* Considerations & Conclusions
-- "Dynamic" Plugins (Go 1.8!?)
-- Use HTTP for everything?
-- Better off with shell scripts?
- Generality and error handling
-- DSL/declarative vs. Programming language balance?
+- Use HTTP for everything?
+- Level of "declarativeness" in the configuration
+- Still better off with shell scripts?