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Nov 27, 2016 elk logstash elastic parsing data

Structuring data with Logstash

Given the trend around microservices, it has become mandatory to be able to follow a transaction across multiple microservices. Spring Cloud Sleuth is such a distributed tracing system fully integrated into the Spring Boot ecosystem. By adding the spring-cloud-starter-sleuth into a project’s POM, it instantly becomes Sleuth-enabled and every standard log call automatically adds additional data, such as spanId and traceId to the usual data. 2016-11-25 19:05:53.221 INFO [demo-app,b4d33156

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Nov 20, 2016 elk logstash elastic debugging

Debugging hints for Logstash

As a Java developer, when you are first shown how to run the JVM in debug mode, attach to it and then set a breakpoint, you really feel like you’ve reached a step on your developer journey. Well, at least I did. Now the world is going full microservice and knowing that trick means less and less in it everyday. This week, I was playing with Logstash to see how I could send all of an application exceptions to an Elasticsearch instance, so I could display them on a Kibana dashboard for analy

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