Bootstrap Based UI for Logstash (Open Source Splunk)

http://rashidkpc.github.com/Kibana/index.html

by kordless • 14 years ago

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rashidkpc.github.com

kordless5• 14 years ago

A working demo is here: http://urly.stackgeek.com/C2v. Author of Logstash is here: http://semicomplete.com.

rurounijones2• 14 years ago

Currently experimenting with logstash and Kibana on internal systems and very happy so far, no complaints with it.

Be warned though that logstash is not mature software, get on the mailing list and read the github page.

Now if only the rails logging system wasn't so tightly integrated and string-happy.

kordless5• 14 years ago

I'm pretty sure he's working on it fulltime as of a month ago or so.

josegonzalez• 14 years ago

whack (author of logstash) works at dreamhost now, and is indeed working on logstash full-time.

The kibana ui is, afaik, being ported to ruby atm.

rurounijones2• 14 years ago

Groovy, didn't know that. When I said "not mature" I just meant in terms of number of deployments and age of the code-base.

No knock against author intended.

cnlwsu• 14 years ago

Looks similar to http://graylog2.org/

lusis4• 14 years ago

Logstash and Graylog are complimentary. Most people, myself included, we're originally using Graylog2 in conjunction with Logstash.

Graylog2, though, had problems with it's original implementation based on capped containers in MongoDB. It has since moved to ElasticSearch.

There are both gelf inputs and outputs for Logstash so you can send your logs to Logstash as if they were going to Graylog2 and do additional munging and still send them out to Graylog2 from there.

cmer• 14 years ago

Would you mind going into more details as to how they are similar and what the differences are between the two? Should I run both, or pick one? You seem to suggest to run both in tandem but I'm not sure I see why since at first sight they seemed pretty much the same to me.

I was planning to setup Logstash next week so your input would really help. Thanks!

northisup• 14 years ago

Why on earth does being made with bootstrap matter for this? The headline should read "Logstash UI that doesn't suck"

What something is built with doesn't matter, that it works matters.

rapind• 14 years ago

I don't see a problem with it TBH. I pretty much knew exactly what to expect because of this wording, which is a good thing.

kordless5• 14 years ago

That's what I was shooting for! :)

lusis4• 14 years ago

Please don't call logstash "an open source splunk". It's no such thing. Splunk still has features that logstash doesn't have (yet). Logstash has quite a few features that Splunk doesn't have.

Jordan had never seen (or to my knowledge has yet to see) splunk at all. I don't know about Pete. Myself, I haven't used Splunk since trying a very early release once in the very first days of it.

Point being, Logstash doesn't call itself an "open source splunk". In fact I've considered adding an output to SplunkStorm to Logstash.

Do I think Logstash is better? Yep. Do I know people who swear by Splunk? Yep. Competition is healthy.

drone• 14 years ago

I agree, "an open-source X" implies it re-implements X.

LogStash is a log management system, which is one application of Splunk. (There are a lot of players in this space.) And, much like Splunk, it seems to be well-fit for users who prefer to get down to the nuts and bolts. I haven't tried it yet, but I don't have a need for real LM or IT search these days, when I do - it'll be in my list of things to set up and try. I like what I've seen, but I don't see much IT search or automation here.

Disclaimer: I was the architect of a closed-source competitor to Splunk in the log management space.

kordless5• 14 years ago

The commonality is they both ingest logs and provide fulltext search for said logs. That's enough to loosely comare the two for purposes of promotion here on HN, or even getting good mentions on ServerFault: http://serverfault.com/questions/62687/alternatives-to-splun...

I'm certainly not the first to make this comparison.

adient3• 14 years ago

Although logstash does have a built in elasticsearch, I wouldn't really say anyone uses logstash itself to provide search for the logs. Logstash itself just provides a way to move events from one place to another, that's all.

meritt• 14 years ago

Speaking as someone who has only casually heard of these products, they are exactly the same thing to the uninitiated. That's not being negative. Just saying both products provide a way to bring sanity through search, indexing and analysis to tons of logs.

klerk• 14 years ago

Does anyone know how many events/sec Logstash can handle? I've only seen people talking about 250 events/sec on the Google Group, but we're a couple orders of magnitude greater than that.

superdude• 14 years ago

You need to add some CSS to account for extra pixels the responsive navbar uses. Also, the JavaScript for the navbar menu does does not seem to be working.

tavishmctavish• 14 years ago

Whats Splunk?

sciurus2• 14 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splunk

PanMan• 14 years ago

Could this be used on Elasticsearch in general? Any pointers what's needed for that? The interface looks nice, and we have a large(ish) Elasticsearch cluster I'd like to try this on.

Bootstrap Based UI for Logstash (Open Source Splunk)

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