Add data - How to add custom logs?

Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana
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Dear All,

I successfully set up Open Distro ES with my Nginx logs and it is working fine. Now, I have my internal application and want to send it’s log to Kibana.

I could not find any module for custom log when i try to add data. There are predefined modules which can be enabled as i did for Nginx. But, how can i add custom logs?

I added my custom logs in filebeat.yml under “paths:”. but still i can’t view my custom logs and nginx logs are available from same filebeat.

Please advise what needs to be done for custom logs.

Thanks
Bala

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Hey Bala! Welcome!

There are lots of ways to achieve that, but with filebeat, I added this to filebeat.yml (assuming a JSON log)

- type: log
  enabled: true
  json.add_error_key: true
  #may be different for yours
  json.message_key: message
  paths:
    - /path/to/your/logs/*.log

Be aware this should get it into Elasticsearch but you won’t have anything else (visualizations, etc.)