Elasticsearch, Inc., the commercial firm behind the open source Elasticsearch search engine, released version 1.4 of Logstash last week. Logstash is one of the most popular log management tools available today, though it competes in a crowded space with projects like Scribe, Flume, Chukwa, Fluentd, and Kafka.
The 1.4 release of Logstash contains a number of important improvements, the most obvious being the quicker startup time, now approximately three times faster. The new release maintains the radical emphasis on ease of use, which is a hallmark of the entire ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana -- the last for reporting and visualization) stack.
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