Stasher

Prototyping a logstash alternative
29 Jan 2017

Silvan Jegen
Computational Linguist, BioVariance GmbH
me@sillymon.ch
https://sillymon.ch


* Logstash

.image icon-logstash-bb.png
.caption logstash logo from the [[https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash][official logstash site]]


* What is it?

.image logstash-img1.png


* Centralize, Transform & Stash

- Input
- Filters
- Outputs

Examples

- Input:
- Filters:
- Outputs:


* How does it work?

Custom configuration language

	input { stdin { } }
	output {
	  elasticsearch { hosts => ["localhost:9200"] }
	  stdout { codec => rubydebug }
	}


* Stasher

Why?

- Apparently Logstash is very slow
- I like Go
- Generality
- Or not?


* Implementation

- Plugins?
- Generality
- DSL vs. Programming language balance?


* Considerations

- Plugins

Further Text, including invocations like:

.link http://foo label
.caption _Gopher_ by [[http://www.reneefrench.com][Renée French]]

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