Feed Your Application Logs to ElasticSearch via logback.xml and Logstash

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In your projects, you can feed your logs to ElasticSearch (and also Kibana) with your logback.xml file.

Let’s add logstash dependency to our pom.xml file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>net.logstash.logback</groupId>
    <artifactId>logstash-logback-encoder</artifactId>
    <version>6.3</version>
</dependency>

Update your logback.xml file with the appender named “STASH”:

You can create a Logstash config file like below (pay attention to the destination for your localhost in logback.xml file and the tcp connection host and port below):

Happy Coding!