/graylog-plugin-beats

Elastic Beats Input plugin for Graylog

Primary LanguageJavaGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Elastic Beats Input Plugin for Graylog

Build Status

Required Graylog version: 2.2.0 and later

This plugin provides an input for the Elastic Beats (formerly Lumberjack) protocol in Graylog which can be used to receive data by log shippers from the logstash-forwards and the Beats family, like Filebeat, Metricbeat, Packetbeat, or Winlogbeat.

Installation

Download the plugin and place the JAR file in your Graylog plugin directory. By default the plugin directory is the plugins/ directory relative to your Graylog installation directory and can be configured in your graylog.conf file.

Restart Graylog and you are done.

Build

This project is using Maven and requires Java 8 or higher.

You can build the plugin (JAR) with mvn package.

DEB and RPM packages can be build with mvn jdeb:jdeb and mvn rpm:rpm respectively.

Plugin Release

In order to release a new version of the plugin, run the following commands:

$ mvn release:prepare
$ mvn release:perform

This sets the version numbers, creates a tag and pushes to GitHub.

Travis CI will build the release artifacts and upload to GitHub automatically.

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Graylog, Inc.

This library is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3.0.

See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html or the LICENSE.txt file in this repository for the full license text.