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Title       : 	Munin plugin to show Logstash/Kibana messages per hour
Author      : 	Remy van Elst
Date        : 	12-04-2013
URL         : 	https://raymii.org/s/software/Munin_plugin_Logstash_Kibana_messages_per_hour.html
Format      : 	Markdown/HTML
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This is a simple munin plugin which shows you the amount of log messages your
logstash/kibana server receives per hour. It should run on the Logstash host, it
gets the data from out the Elasticsearch database.

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![Munin plugin example][2]

## Setup instructions

You need CURL, so you might need to install that via your package manager.

Clone the git repository:

    
    
    git clone git://github.com/RaymiiOrg/munin-plugins.git
    

Place the plugin file in `/usr/share/munin/plugins/`, make it executable and
create a symlink in `/etc/munin/plugins/`

    
    
    cd munin-plugins
    cp logstash-messages-per-hour.sh /usr/share/munin/plugins
    chmod +x /usr/share/munin/plugins/logstash-messages-per-hour.sh
    ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/logstash-messages-per-hour.sh /etc/munin/plugins/logstash
    

Edit the plugin if your elasticsearch database URL is on another host:

    
    
    # Edit the following line, and change localhost to what it should be
    TOTAL_EVENTS=$(curl -s -k -XGET http://localhost:9200/logstash
    

Then wait until your munin server has updated, and enjoy.

   [1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=7435ae6b8212
   [2]: /s/inc/img/munin-logstash.png

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