Last week, I wrote about how one could start developing one’s Logstash plugin coming from a Java developer background. However, with the acquisition of Packetbeat, Logstash now has help from Beats to push data to Elasticsearch. Beats are developed in Go, another challenge for traditional Java developers. This week, I tried porting my Logstash Reddit plugin to a dedicated Beat. This post documents my findings (spoiler: I found it much easier than with Ruby).