Install Logstash on Centos 6.8

Steps to install logstash on Centos 6.8


Install Logstash
We need to make the package information first, just run this command to install the 2.2 logstash version

echo '[logstash-2.2]
name=logstash repository for 2.2 packages
baseurl=http://packages.elasticsearch.org/logstash/2.2/centos
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/logstash.repo

and then install the logstash

sudo yum -y install logstash

Configure Logstash

Logstash is basically already up and running, but it has not do anything yet, the following is the list of sample configuration for logstash

Run Logstash

to start, stop and check logstash status you can use the following command

sudo service logstash start
sudo service logstash stop
sudo service logstash status