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Installing Logstash on FreeBSD Latest

Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs. It is a part of the Elastic Stack, which also includes Elasticsearch and Kibana. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Logstash on FreeBSD using the package manager.

Prerequisites

• A FreeBSD Latest server with root access.
• Basic knowledge of the command-line interface.

Step 1: Update the package repository

Before installing Logstash, it is recommended to update the package repository on your FreeBSD server:

pkg update

Step 2: Install Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Logstash requires Java runtime environment to run. It doesn’t require any specific version of Java. You can choose any openjdk8 or above version. Run the following command to install OpenJDK 8:

pkg install openjdk8

Step 3: Install Logstash

Now you can install Logstash via FreeBSD’s package system:

pkg install logstash

Step 4: Start and enable Logstash service

After installing Logstash, enable and start the service to ensure it is running:

sysrc logstash_enable="YES"
service logstash start

You can check the status of Logstash by running the following command:

service logstash status

Step 5: Configure Logstash

By default, Logstash comes with a sample configuration file under /usr/local/etc/logstash/, which collects logs from STDIN and outputs them to STDOUT. You can modify this file according to your requirements.

For example, to collect logs from an Apache access log file, you can create a new configuration file called apache.conf with the following content:

input {
    file {
        path => "/var/log/httpd/access.log"
        start_position => "beginning"
    }
}

filter {
  if [message] =~ "^#" {
     drop { }
  }
}

output {
    stdout { codec => rubydebug }
}

This configuration will collect data from the Apache access log file, ignore comment lines (starting with #), and output the data to the STDOUT.

You can test the configuration file with the following command:

logstash -f apache.conf --config.test_and_exit

If there are no errors, you can start Logstash with the new configuration file:

logstash -f apache.conf

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Logstash on FreeBSD Latest, install Java Runtime Environment (JRE), start and enable the Logstash service, and configure Logstash to collect logs from an Apache access log file. With Logstash, you can easily collect, parse and store logs from various sources into Elasticsearch.

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