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The LogStash Book by James Turnbull

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Everything I already did know about logstash was in this book, everything I wanted to know was not. All information I gathered so far could be found anywhere on the internet. Unfortunately more advanced topics are not covered.

Also, the author provides different solutions for a given problem, but does not elaborate on what the pros and cons are of these given solutions. How do they scale, what are the performance characteristics what are potential bottlenecks?

What I to know, for example, was how to manage and organise multiple indexes and how to perform proper housekeeping on them.

A recurring sentence found in the book was "We're not going to show you ... because that's beyond the scope of this book ..."

And I think the `man` page on plugins is more extensive than the chapter in the book.
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