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laggerok19
laggerok19

Reputation: 452

Kibana not showing messages from ES + Logstash

I have a ES + LogStash + Kibana set up. ES 1.1.1 is running as a Service with default configuration.

Logstash has a simple config like below:

input { stdin { }}
output{
elasticsearch_http {
    host => "localhost:9200"}
}

My aim is to see the staff I'm inputting to Console on Kibana which is configured to listen http://someserver.com:9200 in config.js.

When I run logstash with above config file and input some words, I'm able to see them on Web page http://someserver.com:9200/_search?pretty, but my Kibana has default black screen?

What could I miss?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4053

Answers (2)

laggerok19
laggerok19

Reputation: 452

The issue here was in IIS. I didn't analyse where exactly, but once I set-up Apache 2.5 everything started working as well. Once I understand what is the issue, will update message.

Upvotes: 0

Alcanzar
Alcanzar

Reputation: 17155

Here's a simple how to get started:

  1. Start up elastic search bin/elasticsearch in a console window.
  2. create a simple logstash config file like you have, but maybe add stdout to it... For example: 
    input { stdin { }}
output{
    stdout { codec => rubydebug }
    elasticsearch_http {
        host => "localhost:9200"
    }
}
  3. Start logstash with your config file: bin/logstash -f simple.conf

  4. Type something in and make sure it gets echo'd back out:

    This is a test
{
  "message" => "This is a test",
  "@version" => "1",
"@timestamp" => "2014-05-05T18:46:25.535Z",
      "host" => "yourhostname"
}

  5. now you can be sure that things are working, so you need to load kibana. If you are just using a web browser (with no web server), you'll need to change the config.js file to show elasticsearch: "http://localhost:9200", instead of the default (which builds the URL based on the web server serving the kibana content).

  6. open the index.html in your browser. You should be greeted with the Kibana Welcome Screen
  7. On the right column of text, it says "Are you a logstash user"... Click on that link and create a logstash dashboard.
  8. Change the time range at the top -- refresh -- every 5 seconds
  9. type more into your logstash console window
  10. your messages that you've typed should appear under "All Events" at the bottom of the page.

If any of this is unclear, let me know which step is giving you issues.

Upvotes: 1

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