A test project for experimenting with using logstash and elasticsearch. It also installs Redis.
- Downloads and extracts logstash
- Downloads and installs elasticsearch as a service
- Installs redis as a service
- Install Git for Windows and be sure to include the optional Unix tools. This will give you SSH. Also, choose the option to install the tools onto your Windows path.
- Install VirtualBox
- Install Vagrant
- Install the ChefDK. Be sure to enable the ChefDK Environment Customization feature during the install.
- On the command line, install the Vagrant Berkshelf plugin:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf - Create a folder
- On the command line, go into the folder you created and call:
git clone https://github.com/NickMRamirez/search_project.git - Still on the command line, call:
vagrant up - If the virtual machine gives you warnings about timing out, then wait for it to complete (or stop it)
and then call:
vagrant provision
- SSH into the machine by calling on the command line:
vagrant ssh. Use vagrant as the SSH username and password - Open the Redis CLI via
redis-cli - Add some data to Redis with commands such as (the key should begin with
logstash::
> redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> LPUSH logstash "my value"
Or, even better, send a string of JSON:
127.0.0.1:6379> LPUSH logstash '{ "errormsg" : "My message!", "date" : "2015-12-12" }'
- Open a browser on your host machine and go to any of the following URLs:
- elasticsearch listens on port 9200 - http://172.28.128.3:9200/_search/?q=redis-input
- You can see indexes via: http://172.28.128.3:9200/_cat/indices?v
- When you SSH into the machine and push something into redis, such as:
> redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> LPUSH logstash "my value"
The value will be transferred, by logstash, to elasticsearch. You can then see it via a URL like the following:
http://172.28.128.3:9200/_search?q=redis-input
- Kibana listens on port 5601 - http://172.28.128.3:5601
- Redis listens on port 6379, so you can connect to it if you have a redis client locally