Is it possible to send logs to Logstash - spring-boot

Question

In my Spring Boot app, I am using Logback to write logs to a file in /tmp/myLog.log.
In my app.yml:
logging:
file: /tmp/myLog.log
My logback.xml:
<configuration>
<property name="LOG_FILE" value="${LOG_FILE:-${LOG_PATH:-${LOG_TEMP:-${java.io.tmpdir:-/tmp}}/}spring.log}"/>
<property name="FILE_LOG_PATTERN" value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %5p ${PID:- } [%t] --- %-40.40logger{39} : %m%n"/>
<appender name="FILE"
class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
<encoder>
<pattern>${FILE_LOG_PATTERN}</pattern>
</encoder>
<file>${LOG_FILE}</file>
<rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.FixedWindowRollingPolicy">
<fileNamePattern>${LOG_FILE}.%i</fileNamePattern>
</rollingPolicy>
<triggeringPolicy
class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy">
<MaxFileSize>10MB</MaxFileSize>
</triggeringPolicy>
</appender>
<root level="INFO">
<appender-ref ref="FILE" />
</root>
</configuration>
Then I tell Logstash to look at this log file, in my conf file:
input {
file {
path => "/tmp/myLog.log"
start_position => "beginning"
}
}
output {
elasticsearch { hosts => ["localhost:9200"] }
stdout { codec => json }
}
Now It is looking at this location at myLog.log. Is there a way to send logs to logstash instead of telling it to looking at a location, in my Spring Boot app?

Answer 1

I was successfully playing around with the Logback-Elasticsearch-Appender. You might want to give it a try.