Using Logstasher in Rails

README.md

Setting Logstasher for Rails

Logstasher's tagline is Awesome Logging for Rails !!, and it does what it says.

we have been using it in prod, and it's working fine.

Our logging setup is Logstasher -> Filebeat Sidecar -> Logstash -> Elasticsearch -> Kibana

• Logstasher for json fomatted logs
• Filebeat to ship the logs to ELK Stack

Setup and Config

1. install gem by adding it in gemfile and bundle install
2. edit rails env config file, for prod config/environments/production.rb

in configure block add follwing, and you will see logs in log/logstasher.log

  # Enable the logstasher logs for the current environment
  config.logstasher.enabled = true

  # This line is optional if you do not want to suppress app logs in your <environment>.log
  config.logstasher.suppress_app_log = false

  config.logstasher.log_controller_parameters = true

  # This line is optional, defaults to log/logstasher_<environment>.log
  config.logstasher.logger_path = 'log/logstasher.log'