Logstash: Official support for nats.io input

[molszanski]

Request:
Provide an official support for a nats-io-input.

In reference to elastic.co forum thread:
Nats.io “official” support as a move towards a distributed system

ping: @warkolm

[suyograo]

Contribution welcome!

[Hronom]

So what the progress?

[elvarb]

Both an input and output plugin for Nats would be very welcome

[himulawang]

Any progress here?

[elvarb]

I'm very quickly becoming a huge fan of nats. Now that Nats Streaming is here it could easily replace other queues like Redis, Kafka and RabbitMQ.

[Hronom]

Any progress?

[molszanski]

Was following the topic. No progress :/ I just dropped logstash from the
stack :)

[elvarb]

@molszanski what did you replace it with?

[molszanski]

Custom ETL server in node.js that talks to elasticsearch directly.

It is easier than dev opsing logstash :)

[elvarb]

Interesting, for a well defined requirements writing a custom program for this is a very appealing solution.

[molszanski]

Yes. I had a super simple task. So it was wiser (in respect to an overall
time use) to write a small soft that I have control than try to manage and
configure logstash for the same thing :)

[Hronom]

@elvarb in current situation you able to:

1. Write your own solution
2. Write solution for logstash

because there is no integration in logstash for NATS yet...

[qrpike]

This would be GREAT to have +1

[u238]

+1

[perbly]

+1

[lliknart]

I started a NATS input for Logstash.
https://github.com/lliknart/logstash-input-nats

[businessbean]

nats-io-input and nats-io-output would help us to use NATS as an alternative to Kafka.