Loki: Logstash plugin

[cyriltovena]

I think it would be interesting to have a logstash plugin for folks that are using it and have it already configured.

info here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/contributing-java-plugin.html

/cc @slim-bean the java expert :)

[randomchance]

is there any way to get data from logstash to loki at present, even without a plugin? My environment uses ELK, but we want to move away from it, both because it's so heavy and because we want to avoid installing java everywhere.

I would love to replace the EK part with Loki - I still need the ability to transform and forward logs that logstash gives, and I haven't found a replacement I'm happy with for a windows stack.

[cyriltovena]

Not really but the Loki push API is fairly easy so writing a small exporter for your use case shouldn't be too much trouble.

[randomchance]

Alright, I'll give it a shot, thanks :)

[cyriltovena]

I’m working on a pipe to promtail feature that should help you.

[cyriltovena]

@randomchance you can pipe to promtail now, not sure if it helps a lot but that can be used to transfer data and/or test before transfering.

[vbichov]

@cyriltovena any chance you could share link to the relevant docs?

[cyriltovena]

https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/master/docs/clients/promtail/troubleshooting.md#pipe-data-to-promtail

[adityacs]

@randomchance I see that you are working on logstash plugin. If you already have your code ready, you can push and create your PR. I am ok to close my PR #1822

Thanks

[randomchance]

@adityacs With everything going on I have not had a chance to even start on that, and it's been shelved for the future. The logstash plugin repo I do have is for VSCode, so don't wait on me!

[adityacs]

Thanks @randomchance