Logstash pros and cons

Name: Logstash
Brand: Elastic
Rating: 4.5 (5 reviews)

Vendor: Elastic

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Pros & Cons summary

Logstash efficiently collects logs from various data sources, including hardware, and transforms them for presentation in Kibana. Multiple servers enhance high availability, supported by numerous plugins for diverse environments. While Logstash aligns well with improving organizational processes, it needs better compatibility and clustering capabilities. Importing logs poses challenges, and support from Elastic is limited, with technical assistance rated low. This makes research for solutions potentially unreliable.

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PROS

Logstash can collect logs from various data sources, including hardware.

There are three or four Logstash servers for high availability.

Logstash aligns well with improving the organization.

Numerous plugins for inputs and outputs allow Logstash to work well in environments without other Elastic components.

Logstash enables log transformation for presentation in Kibana.

CONS

Logstash needs to improve compatibility.

There is still a problem with importing the log system.

Almost all research can be very bad.

Elastic does not provide proper support for Logstash worldwide, with technical support rated as one out of ten.

It would be beneficial to implement the ability to cluster Logstash to exist in more than one node.

Logstash Pros review quotes

Mustafa Husny

Senior System Engineer at Techline-eg

Mar 11, 2024

I can collect logs from various data sources, including hardware.

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ShinichiYamamisaka

Consultant at SMRJ

Jan 15, 2025

We have three or four Logstash servers for high availability.

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Mohammed-Abdelalim

Assistant Vice President at QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Mar 11, 2025

Logstash has numerous plugins for inputs and outputs, allowing it to work well in environments that do not contain other Elastic components.

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reviewer2727468

Senior Application Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

Jun 20, 2025

The transformation means we ship the logs in the way that we want them to be presented in Kibana, which is the main function we use Logstash for.

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PRANIL CHANDARKAR

Associate Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 18, 2025

The functionality of Logstash is quite easy to implement and the plugin ecosystem of Logstash is great, with plugins for shell script monitoring and SQL monitoring working well with the tool.

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