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The most varied point in an ELK (Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana) stack is the mechanism by which custom events and logs will get sent to Logstash for processing. Companies running Java applications with logging sent to log4j or SLF4J/Logback will have local log files that need to be tailed.  Applications running in containers may send everything to stdout/stderr, … ELK: Feeding the logging pipeline