class LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch

This plugin is the recommended method of storing logs in Elasticsearch. If you plan on using the Kibana web interface, you'll want to use this output.

This output only speaks the HTTP protocol. HTTP is the preferred protocol for interacting with Elasticsearch as of Logstash 2.0. We strongly encourage the use of HTTP over the node protocol for a number of reasons. HTTP is only marginally slower, yet far easier to administer and work with. When using the HTTP protocol one may upgrade Elasticsearch versions without having to upgrade Logstash in lock-step. For those still wishing to use the node or transport protocols please see the <<plugins-outputs-elasticsearch_java,elasticsearch_java output plugin>>.

You can learn more about Elasticsearch at <www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch>

Retry Policy

The retry policy has changed significantly in the 2.2.0 release. This plugin uses the Elasticsearch bulk API to optimize its imports into Elasticsearch. These requests may experience either partial or total failures.

The following errors are retried infinitely:

NOTE: 409 exceptions are no longer retried. Please set a higher `retry_on_conflict` value if you experience 409 exceptions. It is more performant for Elasticsearch to retry these exceptions than this plugin.

DNS Caching

This plugin uses the JVM to lookup DNS entries and is subject to the value of docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/net/properties.html[networkaddress.cache.ttl], a global setting for the JVM.

As an example, to set your DNS TTL to 1 second you would set the `LS_JAVA_OPTS` environment variable to `-Dnetwordaddress.cache.ttl=1`.

Keep in mind that a connection with keepalive enabled will not reevaluate its DNS value while the keepalive is in effect.

Public Instance Methods

build_client() click to toggle source
# File lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch.rb, line 131
def build_client
  @client = ::LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch::HttpClientBuilder.build(@logger, @hosts, params)
end
close() click to toggle source
# File lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch.rb, line 135
def close
  @stopping.make_true
  @client.stop_sniffing!
  @buffer.stop
end