Module settings and structure

settings

logstash.yml

modules:
  - name: netflow
  var.output.elasticsearch.host: "es.mycloud.com"
  var.output.elasticsearch.user: "foo"
  var.output.elasticsearch.password: "password"
  var.input.tcp.port: 5606

command-line

bin/logstash \
 --modules netflow \
 -M "netflow.var.output.elasticsearch.host=es.mycloud.com" \
 -M "netflow.var.output.elasticsearch.user=foo" \
 -M "netflow.var.output.elasticsearch.password=password" \
 -M "netflow.var.input.tcp.port=5606"

Current Gem structure

GEM File structure logstash-module-netflow ├── configuration │ ├── elasticsearch │ │ └── netflow.json │ ├── kibana │ │ ├── dashboard │ │ │ └── netflow.json (contains '["dash1", "dash2"]') │ │ │ └── dash1.json ("panelJSON" contains refs to visualization panels 1,2 and search 1) │ │ │ └── dash2.json ("panelJSON" contains refs to visualization panel 3 and search 2) │ │ ├── index-pattern | | | └── netflow.json │ │ ├── search | | | └── search1.json | | | └── search2.json │ │ └── vizualization | | | └── panel1.json | | | └── panel2.json | | | └── panel3.json │ └── logstash │ └── netflow.conf.erb ├── lib │ └── logstash_registry.rb └── logstash-module-netflow.gemspec

Proposed multi-version Gem structure

GEM File structure logstash-module-netflow ├── configuration │ ├── elasticsearch │ │ └── netflow.json │ ├── kibana │ │ ├── dashboard │ │ │ └── netflow.json (contains '{"v5.5.0": ["dash1", "dash2"], "v6.0.4": ["dash1", "dash2"]') │ │ │ └── v5.5.0 │ │ │ | └── dash1.json ("panelJSON" contains refs to visualization panels 1,2 and search 1) │ │ │ | └── dash2.json ("panelJSON" contains refs to visualization panel 3 and search 2) │ │ │ └── v6.0.4 │ │ │ └── dash1.json ("panelJSON" contains refs to visualization panels 1,2 and search 1) │ │ │ └── dash2.json ("panelJSON" contains refs to visualization panel 3 and search 2) │ │ ├── index-pattern │ │ │ └── v5 | | | | └── netflow.json │ │ │ └── v6 | | | └── netflow.json │ │ ├── search │ │ │ └── v5 | | | | └── search1.json | | | | └── search2.json │ │ │ └── v6 | | | └── search1.json | | | └── search2.json │ │ └── vizualization │ │ │ └── v5 | | | | └── panel1.json | | | | └── panel2.json | | | | └── panel3.json │ │ │ └── v6 | | | └── panel1.json | | | └── panel2.json | | | └── panel3.json │ └── logstash │ └── netflow.conf.erb ├── lib │ └── logstash_registry.rb └── logstash-module-netflow.gemspec