Quickstart

This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

Add the following specification to create a minimal Logstash deployment that will listen to a Beats agent or Elastic Agent configured to send to Logstash on port 5044, create the service and write the output to an Elasticsearch cluster named quickstart, created in the Elasticsearch quickstart.

cat <<'EOF' | kubectl apply -f -
apiVersion: logstash.k8s.elastic.co/v1alpha1
kind: Logstash
metadata:
  name: quickstart
spec:
  count: 1
  elasticsearchRefs:
    - name: quickstart
      clusterName: qs
  version: 8.16.0
  pipelines:
    - pipeline.id: main
      config.string: |
        input {
          beats {
            port => 5044
          }
        }
        output {
          elasticsearch {
            hosts => [ "${QS_ES_HOSTS}" ]
            user => "${QS_ES_USER}"
            password => "${QS_ES_PASSWORD}"
            ssl_certificate_authorities => "${QS_ES_SSL_CERTIFICATE_AUTHORITY}"
          }
        }
  services:
    - name: beats
      service:
        spec:
          type: NodePort
          ports:
            - port: 5044
              name: "filebeat"
              protocol: TCP
              targetPort: 5044
EOF

Check Configuration examples for more ready-to-use manifests.

Check the status of Logstash

kubectl get logstash

NAME              AVAILABLE   EXPECTED   AGE   VERSION
quickstart        3           3          4s    8.16.0

List all the Pods that belong to a given Logstash specification.

kubectl get pods --selector='logstash.k8s.elastic.co/name=quickstart'

NAME              READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
quickstart-ls-0   1/1     Running   0          91s

Access logs for a Pod.

kubectl logs -f quickstart-ls-0

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