Logstash - Ansible role

• Installs logstash from tar, deb or rpm
• Fetchs from remote web or local copy
• Tested on Debian Wheezy (7) and RedHat 7 via packages only
• Should work on RedHat 6, 7 and Debian Jessie (8)

This role installs a JRE. If you dont want to do so, set logstash_install_java: false.

You can also change java packages with the list logstash_packages_java.

Configuration templates are poor right now but they will be enrich soon.

Basic template

By default, it will generate a simple TCP listener on port 5410 (dont ask me why this one) and outputs into a local Elasticsearch server.

If you want some extra basic configuration, set these variables like this:

logstash_(inputs|filters|outputs):
    -
      type: (input|filter|output)_name
      options:
          -
            key: option_name
            value: option_value

Custom configuration files

If you dont want such a basic configuration or have conditional statements, dont use the basic template and write your own configuration files.

They should be located in a directory like host_files/<ansible_nodename>/logstash/ and named like myconf.conf.j2.

Remember they are templates so use any variable you want.

Then set logstash_custom_conf_files variable like this:

logstash_custom_conf_files:
    - 'my_inputs_tcp'
    - 'my_inputs_udp'
    - 'my_filters_blafilter'
    - 'my_filters_bla2filter'
    - 'my_outputs_elasticsearch'
    - 'my_outputs_rabbitmq'

Then set logstash_use_basic_template: false. It is optional, just remember the default basic template will be named 0000_logstash.conf